I think there are some great New York Times writers (Li Yuan’s articles I always like), but there’s a lot of seriously bad writing and writers.
It’s not exclusive to NYT either, Vox makes some great stuff - but they also published that “no handshakes” article mocking Silicon Valley for taking COVID seriously.
Vox repeatedly pushed the “COVID isn’t a pandemic” story. Vox doubled down on the “no handshakes” thing with Kara Swisher arguing in support of it. They still haven’t admitted being wrong.
If you know anyone who has a NYT piece written about them usually they’re surprised by how many things are wrong.
Of course these are just the publications that even pretend to be honest, I’m not unfairly targeting them - others unnamed are often worse.
I think their ad driven model is a corrupting influence. I also think their anti-tech company bias is related to tech companies destroying their historical business model (I think they're holding a grudge: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...).
I think it’s better to support good writers directly, I hope substack and independent blogs win.
Also this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
Also: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
I think there are some great New York Times writers (Li Yuan’s articles I always like), but there’s a lot of seriously bad writing and writers.
It’s not exclusive to NYT either, Vox makes some great stuff - but they also published that “no handshakes” article mocking Silicon Valley for taking COVID seriously.
Vox repeatedly pushed the “COVID isn’t a pandemic” story. Vox doubled down on the “no handshakes” thing with Kara Swisher arguing in support of it. They still haven’t admitted being wrong.
Link: https://medium.com/@balajis/citations-for-the-recode-handsha...
If you know anyone who has a NYT piece written about them usually they’re surprised by how many things are wrong.
Of course these are just the publications that even pretend to be honest, I’m not unfairly targeting them - others unnamed are often worse.
I think their ad driven model is a corrupting influence. I also think their anti-tech company bias is related to tech companies destroying their historical business model (I think they're holding a grudge: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...).
I think it’s better to support good writers directly, I hope substack and independent blogs win.
Some suggestions:
Persuasion: https://www.persuasion.community/
Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/
Stay Tuned with Preet: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-podcast/
Andrew Sullivan: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe
Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/