• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    were explicitly favoring him for some horrifying reason

    I’m at work on a short break so I can’t pull up the source, but the guy whose family “runs” the NYTs has said he’s looking to court conservative readers. He has denied this somewhat recently, but the trend matches the behavior we witnessed l. I found this by trying to figure out who owns the NYT to begin with so maybe start with the wiki on NYT

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      Although I don’t at all agree with its central thesis about the Times, this article goes into a good bit of the history and the behind the scenes. I talked in the comments about what I think is mistaken about the article, but you can still learn a lot about the Times from reading the facts it is basing its incorrect conclusions on.