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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas (defector.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26082031

The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disastrous when applied to a recent article which sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might […]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If there were a doctor that saves 99% of his patients but actively kills every 100th then that isnt a very good doctor.

For a newspaper the acceptable frequency of lying about and protecting genocidal maniacs is zero. If you fail this absolute basic level of journalistic dilligence your entire newspaper becomes worthless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah fair enough.