[richwater]

The NYT is moving more and more into scaremongering articles. This is a great example where the title says "Sexual Assault" but within the article it mentions the vast majority are nothing near as serious as assault (but obviously still a problem).

The article does not compare or contrast the rates to other industries, situations or just living life in general. My comment is not to absolve Uber, but rather point out that the article does not do a good job at proving that Uber is any more dangerous than a variety of other places/activities/things.

[sometimes_all]

This is not new; NYT has been doing this for quite a long time, and it got exacerbated when Trump started running for office in 2015-2016. It is very difficult for me to take NYT (or most news websites) seriously now - one can take advantage of a lot of platforms just stripping out most fluff and giving you only the objective details.

Just take a cursory look at the front page, and see how much of it is hard, actual news. Even in the Business section, you'll find words like "cult-like" and "drowning in debt". It's very difficult to believe that this is a newspaper of record.