NYT doesn't have a monopoly; no one is claiming that it does.
But many hundreds of newspapers are still technically "publishing" while doing almost nothing that even resembles traditional journalism. This coast-to-coast hollowing-out of what was once a pretty robust ecosystem is disheartening. The NYT may blow dead bears at doing its job, but it is one of very few outlets that are even trying.
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
thanks gannett, thanks tronc, thanks wall street
― maura, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
i buy the PAPER nyt 3x a week (incl Sunday, total $10) and can forage one daily off subway seats if i gotta
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
"many of the people who are most vocal about the lack of good investigative reporting and how they're going to cancel their NYT subscriptions are also the ones who (seemingly unironically?) are promoting this dumb teen vogue op-ed that features no original reporting"
I'd like to see some data, please. some numbers telling us how many people who say they are going to cancel their NYT subscriptions are also sharing this Teen Vogue editorial. 2 of your Facebook friends? 3? We demand facts.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
that "dumb teen vogue op-ed" may not be the sine qua non of courageous journalism, but it makes its point well and it was a point well worth making.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
and anna wintour, who is artistic director for teen vogue parent condé nast, met with trump this morning. so...
― maura, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
wait what why did that happen
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
bcz she's AW
http://img.timeinc.net/time/2010/time100_poll_walkup/wintour_anna.jpg
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
http://maglomaniac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-Velvet-Underground-002.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
http://images.onionstatic.com/clickhole/3502/3/16x9/640.jpg
http://www.clickhole.com/article/farewell-icon-anna-wintour-being-dragged-woods-dee-5212
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/29361/3283952-javier-bardem-anton-chigurh-no-country-for-old-men.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
a reason to go buy a damn copy of the Sunday Times
http://www.nytco.com/new-york-times-to-offer-special-puzzle-section-exclusive-to-print-readers/
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/12/stop-the-press - reinforces my points
so far since the election I've spent more on "news" than I have in years but none of it has gone to a major US daily
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
should we just make a new thread about what a bootlicking shit show the new york times is
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 31 December 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Isn't there already an NYT thread? Quiddities of the ruling class or w/e
― maccabeelzebubbly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
I dunno, man, if the same shit reporters keep writing shit pieces, maybe we can try shining a light on those fuckers instead of this 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' kick the world seems to be on of late.
― DJ Untz Hall (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
^^^^^
― maura, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cjr.org/the_feature/arts_music_critics.php?utm_content=buffer249b5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 January 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/public-editor/a-muted-alarm-bell-over-russian-election-hacking.html
― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Saturday, 21 January 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
So this long piece at Wired by Gabriel Snyder is a lot more even-handed (i.e. not a total exercise in slobbering all over the disruptive tech people) than I would suspect based on headline and venue:
One of the biggest initiatives Dolnick has been involved in is virtual reality. He says it started with an email he sent to Silverstein last year: “Hey man, want to see something cool?” Dolnick had just visited a VR production company called Vrse (since renamed Within) and brought one of their films, Clouds Over Sidra, into his office. The Times has since jumped into VR, partnering with Google to send its Cardboard VR viewers to all of its 1.1 million Sunday print-edition subscribers, creating an NYT VR app that’s been downloaded more than 1 million times, and producing 16 (and counting) original films about topics as varied as displaced refugees (The Displaced), floating movie stars (Take Flight), and battling ISIS in Iraq (The Fight for Falluja). It remains a working experiment. The floating movie stars, for example: “People liked it, it got pretty good views,” Silverstein says. “But it didn’t feel like we were advancing the ball. It had a little whiff of ‘Look at us. We have VR.’”Even as Sulzberger boasts, “We employ more journalists who can write code than any other news organization,” there are some at the Times—usually those who can’t write code—who chafe at these endless waves of experimentation. “When we’re told this is the new best practice, everyone marches in lockstep,” says one editor who asked to remain anonymous. “Facebook Live? Yep! Video? On it! The New York Times isn’t a place where people say no, and we’re flat-out exhausted.”
Even as Sulzberger boasts, “We employ more journalists who can write code than any other news organization,” there are some at the Times—usually those who can’t write code—who chafe at these endless waves of experimentation. “When we’re told this is the new best practice, everyone marches in lockstep,” says one editor who asked to remain anonymous. “Facebook Live? Yep! Video? On it! The New York Times isn’t a place where people say no, and we’re flat-out exhausted.”
― El Tomboto, Monday, 13 February 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
duh, link
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/new-york-times-digital-journalism/
Is there a chrome plug-in that ensures I don't get to see anything Charles Krauthammer contributes to WaPo, even the headline, even the suggestion that he writes for them at all? I get why he's on the masthead, for balance and all, but he's such a hateful choad I'd just like to live in ignorance of anything he ever does.
― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Friday, 24 February 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
HamNo takes his turn at the piñata
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-new-york-times-is-not-built-for-this-1793008337
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
HamNo OTM
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 07:06 (seven years ago) link
Who the fuck cares about columnists?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
columnists
― Thank you for your service, wasteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Someone should write a think piece about that. I nominate ... Friedman. Go!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
yogurt and squats blogger takes aim at the gray lady
― frankie r. failson (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
this uproar over the times' 14324th worst op-ed ever is a pretty good example of what's wrong with twitter liberalism
― k3vin k., Saturday, 29 April 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
I probably agree with you. What did they do now?
I've had many days lately where I briefly considered reviving this thread to remind everyone the bad and failing NYT is run by lickspittles and is terrible, then remember I have better thinks to do like play Realm Grinder
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 April 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
seems like people don't want investigative reporting as much as they want to see their worldview faithfully represented in the media
― k3vin k., Monday, December 12, 2016 9:27 PM (four months ago)
looks like i already made the same point a few months ago. points for consistency
― k3vin k., Saturday, 29 April 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
bret stephens writes climate skeptic piece, denizens of wokistan threaten to cancel their NYT subscriptions
― k3vin k., Saturday, 29 April 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
my question is how woke can you really be if you haven't already canceled your NYT sub for one of the various other nonsense controversies?
Yes that's where I'm atIf you're frustrated by our current political situation why on earth are you reading the NYT much less paying for the "privilege"
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 April 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
there are a shocking number of people -- who work in media -- who don't know the difference between an editorial and an op-ed
― k3vin k., Monday, 1 May 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link
There's something odd abt this @nytimes article on small biz owners cheering Trump's decision to leave Paris treaty https://t.co/8VKj3NLBCg— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) June 3, 2017
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Saturday, 3 June 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
talk about cultivating a source
― maura, Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/GlennThrush
:_(
― j., Tuesday, 19 September 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
R.I.P., Baltimore City Paper
http://digitaledition.citypaper.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=1ddfe712-b9bd-43ff-8ce6-250b707c05ef
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
The two local free weeklies have shrunk massively since they stopped doing ads for escorts in the back - wondering how long they'll stick around.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
The Stranger comes out every other week now and Seattle Weekly is no longer going to be an alt weekly. I haven't picked up either in print more than three times in 5 years in the city. The Seattle Times is the private mouthpiece of hateful anti-tax dipshits that accidentally seems to employ journalists as cover, which I do not consider it my civic duty to support. The best journalism in Seattle is done by bloggers.
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
milo z hits it right. The decline of classifieds has been near-fatal; adult stuff going elsewhere is a killer.
― what if a much of a which of a wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
The NYT may blow dead bears at doing its job, but it is one of very few outlets that are even trying.
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Still as true as the day it was written.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link
We were expecting there to be some pain with the sale of @LAWeekly. But we weren't expecting the Red Wedding. That's how deep the cuts are. 1/— Mara Shalhoup (@mshalhoup) November 29, 2017
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Mara Shalhoup is a great editor (I worked with her in a sidelong way when I did editing for the Chicago Reader) and what's in store for the LA Weekly does not look good.
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/brian-calle-la-weeklys-new-honcho-is-an-oc-weekly-scariest-person-8565478
However I'd be remiss if I didn't counterpoint her claim about the music editor with this:
Reading eulogies of the LA Weekly where people are praising the two most recent music editors like pic.twitter.com/5uxi5Pj6F6— Kat Bee (@katbeee) November 30, 2017
(Also the actual best music editor out there is Philip Montoro.)
― maura, Thursday, 30 November 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
(That Kat Bee tweet is a thread, by the way.)
maura, thanks for that background.
When I worked for Washington City Paper it was still owned by the Chicago Reader? (On and off approximately 96-00?). Everybody knew print was on its way out but there were still islands of relevance and we were having a great time partying on the wreckage.
― here come the warm jorts (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Repeating: All editors of @LAWeekly just got fired. One staff writer kept. Ex-editor @mshalhoup is tweeting her individual thanks. Gotta assume new mystery owners have a shadow staff waiting out in the parking lot.— Kevin Roderick (@LAObserved) November 29, 2017
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/news/who-owns-la-weekly-8911213
The new owners of LA Weekly don’t want you to know who they are. They are hiding from you. They’ve got big black bags with question marks covering their big bald heads.These new owners just laid off nine hardworking journalists. Why? For sport? To start anew? To fulfill a blood vendetta that is centuries old?Maybe they have a good reason. Maybe they don’t.We don’t know. You don’t know. No one knows but them.Who owns this publication?It’s a fair question.Who is benefiting?You deserve to know.Who owns LA Weekly?
These new owners just laid off nine hardworking journalists. Why? For sport? To start anew? To fulfill a blood vendetta that is centuries old?
Maybe they have a good reason. Maybe they don’t.
We don’t know. You don’t know. No one knows but them.
Who owns this publication?
It’s a fair question.
Who is benefiting?
You deserve to know.
Who owns LA Weekly?
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
uh wtf
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link