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0 pointsmnglkhn28y ago0 comments

To paraphrase: 'NYT does not want what's best for us.'

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ucaetano8y ago· 3 in thread

> To paraphrase: 'NYT does not want what's best for us.'

This isn't an article by the NYT. It's an opinion piece by someone unrelated to the newspaper:

Jonathan Taplin is the director emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and the author of “Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.”

CamperBob28y ago

You've posted this about 6 times now. If people are still disagreeing with you, maybe there's a reason.

If an article appears under the New York Times' logo and URL, then it can reasonably be assumed to reflect an opinion that the New York Times wishes to be associated with.

kurthr8y ago

Since opinion pieces in the NYT have many times taken completely opposite sides (often in rapid succession), and the OpEd page is not considered journalism (i.e. it is opinion), I think your statement is patently false ("the NYT doesn't want...") unless you believe that the NYT wishes to be associated with all opinions. In fact that is how OpEd pages are supposed to work if one believes their readers might be able to think for themselves.

See their editorial submission page for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/site/editorial/op-ed/op...

"We're interested in everything, if it's opinionated and we believe our readers will find it worth reading."

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ucaetano8y ago

> If an article appears under the New York Times' logo and URL, then it can reasonably be assumed to reflect an opinion that the New York Times wishes to be associated with.

No. That is not a reasonable assumption. Newspapers frequently carry highly opposing pieces in their opinion sections. That's how newspapers have worked for a very long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed

The NYT has, for example, hosted Putin in the opinion section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...

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ucaetano8y ago· 3 in thread

> To paraphrase: 'NYT does not want what's best for us.'

This isn't an article by the NYT. It's an opinion piece by someone unrelated to the newspaper:

CamperBob28y ago

You've posted this about 6 times now. If people are still disagreeing with you, maybe there's a reason.

If an article appears under the New York Times' logo and URL, then it can reasonably be assumed to reflect an opinion that the New York Times wishes to be associated with.

kurthr8y ago

See their editorial submission page for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/site/editorial/op-ed/op...

"We're interested in everything, if it's opinionated and we believe our readers will find it worth reading."

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ucaetano8y ago

> If an article appears under the New York Times' logo and URL, then it can reasonably be assumed to reflect an opinion that the New York Times wishes to be associated with.

No. That is not a reasonable assumption. Newspapers frequently carry highly opposing pieces in their opinion sections. That's how newspapers have worked for a very long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed

The NYT has, for example, hosted Putin in the opinion section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...

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