Post by Mark Copelovitch / Redsky

we know - or remember - what journalism is and nyt ain’t it

aug 30, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view

I swear these are AI generated at this point and it’s set to “support conservatives”

aug 31, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view

I mean, is it really worse than Automatic for the People?

aug 30, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view

"Pushing the boundaries for public health" would be what I'd call providing free healthcare for all!

aug 30, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view

Ok, that is post of the day, well done.

aug 30, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view

RFK, RFK, how many folks did you kill today?

aug 30, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view

The NYT Editorial Board told you that “Every Day is Jan. 6 Now,” & “the Republic faces an existential threat,” and then its entire news operation & editors went right back to doing whatever 👆 is on a daily basis. I guess they didn’t really mean it, or it was all a joke 🤷‍♂️

aug 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 173 31 • view

many NYT subscribers believe in a newspaper that doesn't actually exist

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So tasty, it's obscene!

aug 30, 2025, 4:47 pm • 3 0 • view

I have a very smart, very progressive, very political, Times subscriber friend react with total confusion when I told him the Times was a fascist rag a few months ago. A couple weeks ago he told me he understood what I meant

aug 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 0 • view

it's maddening because SOMETIMES, it does. Some of the journalists, some of the time. But then, there's the rest of the time.

aug 30, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view

and that's the thing, many first-class reporters and some very good columnists being consistently undermined by colleagues, editors, senior management, and a publisher who have a different agenda and who are piloting the ship

aug 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 2 1 • view

SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION oh sorry where was i

aug 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view

remembering a canadian NYT subscriber i goaded into cutting me off by telling him "the new york times advocated for the armed conquest of your nation and you insist on keeping your NYT subscription and defending their honor? have you neither spine nor sense of dignity?"

aug 30, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view

Two most reliable news sources are no longer. @washingtonpost.com is pure crap & @nytimes.com is on the way to becoming that. Now I go to @apnews.com @sandiegouniontribune.com and, of course @thebulwark.com

aug 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 3 0 • view

Boston and Philly papers are pretty good

aug 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view

They're all mostly paywalled though.

aug 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 2 0 • view

Discovered a way around that, go to website “Archive.today” Paste the paywall link where indicated up top and you should be able to read the content. Some publishers block this but, ime, most do not, incl New Yorker & WSJ. I’ve accessed everything I wanted to.

aug 31, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view

Wired and Rolling Stone have been bring it for a while. Teen Vogue too, of course.

aug 30, 2025, 5:15 pm • 2 0 • view

Who’d have thought Teen Vogue?

aug 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view

They keep paying for it! What are they doing?!

aug 30, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view

Also many journalists look to a NYTimes legend that doesn't really exist and yet, still allows them to guide their own reporting.

aug 30, 2025, 4:52 pm • 2 1 • view

That stuff was a ploy for subscribers. They probably giggled at it.

aug 30, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view

Literally, about how @nytimes.com covers American politics changed, from the point at which it wrote that masthead editorial & today. Its editors have just continued with the same decades-old playbook as if nothing had happened. New levels of torturous euphemisms & normalization ever day.

aug 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 73 15 • view

In fact, a centuries-old playbook:

aug 30, 2025, 4:59 pm • 46 8 • view

I think the NYT's failure is essentially moral: when crimes and the overthrow democracy are happening in plain sight, everyone -- media outlets included -- has to take a stand on what is morally right. The Times has become a cariacature of itself. People need to stop reading it, period.

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most generous interpretation is they were sincere about it but believe the threat won and the Republic is no more, but shareholders still require returns

aug 30, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view

NYT is fascist enabling right-wing propaganda, and people who still don't get this are clingers holding on to a long dated worldview.

aug 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view

Hitler pushed the boundaries of the Golden Rule. Vlad the Impaler pushed the boundaries of cruel and unusual punishment. Pol Pot pushed the boundaries of education. Charles Manson pushed the boundaries of family.

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Infuriating

aug 30, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view

Crap like this makes it almost impossible to have respect for the @nytimes.com - and tarnishes the reams of excellent journalism many of their people do. Tragic.

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Jeffrey Dahmer pushed the boundaries of hospitality.

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“Charles Manson pushed the boundaries of houseguest etiquette.”

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“Bernie Madoff pushed the boundaries of fiduciary responsibility.”

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If Bernie Madoff didn’t die he would probably be Secretary of treasury in this administration.

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"Jeffrey Dahmer pushed the boundaries of gastronomy."

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I pushed a boundary once. That chainlink is something else, let me tell you!

aug 30, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view

All the news that’s . . .

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Mary Baker Eddy is having a party in heaven. This all seems straight out of the Christian Science approach (or retreat) from medicine.

aug 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view

"Adolf Hitler pushed the boundaries of antisemitism."

aug 30, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view

John Snow pushed the boundaries of public health. Jonas Salk pushed the boundaries of public health. RFK and DJT are destroying public health for fun and profit

aug 30, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view

Mohamed Atta pushed the boundaries of aviation.

aug 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view

You are of course right. For profit journalism is inherently about profits. Not truth. American Journalism has always been absolutely terrible. It's been so terrible that the few real journalists in American history are held up as heroes.

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