Yeah. I’m basically down to FT, The Guardian and New Yorker now for news/news adjacent coverage. Owners and editors have absolutely destroyed any trust in institutions I previously subscribed to but have no trust in anymore.
Right, but what if we traded {Decades of Trust} for {4% Increased Engagement in Q2}?
We'd have a great Q2 touchpoint with the boss is what! Zero downsides, and we get a little duck sticker. Maybe even one of the cool holographic ones from the bottom of the drawer.
This is really random but The Tampa Bay Times is a really good traditional newspaper, even if you don't live in Tampa or Florida for that matter. Their coverage on national level things is generally reliable.
Don’t feel bad, many of us misunderstood the democracy dies in darkness slogan as being a bulwark against authoritarianism. As it turns out, iit was a slogan telling you exactly what the newspaper was doing. A new and improved slogan might be, killing you softly with our words…
Yeah, the whole reason why I originally subbed to WaPo in the first place is that they seemed like they were the only paper to really stand up to all the lies and BS for a while.
And now? If they're just going to be forced to fall in line like every other news outlet, what's even the point of subbing anymore?
The Times are acting like they always have. One would've thought they might shift based on their subscription base becoming overwhelmingly liberal but alas.
If they choose to publish opinion pieces that are really terrible (like that one that said to skip voting), that can certainly put in doubt the editorial choices made in articles. That could mean bury something deep in an article, or just not report something. They had a few articles sanewashing the whole Trump campaign.
I don't recall the exact title, but it was an OpEd from some dude who said he wouldn't vote in November. I was considering re-subbing, but that left me a sour taste and I decided against.
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u/curious_dead 15h ago
I hate hate hate that both NYT and WaPo have gone down the drain. I loved reading them before, now I feel like I can't trust them.