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I'm a paying subscriber of the New York Times.
I find your criticism deeply unfair. Yes, the NYT sometimes gets thing wrong. No news organization is perfect. But, overall, it's a good newspaper. And they aren't anti-middle class. In fact, I would argue the opposite. It's one of the only big media organization in the US that regularly publishes pro-union opinion articles. When was the last time you saw USA today or CNN do that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/opinion/uaw-strike-unions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/opinion/starbucks-union-strikes-labor-movement.html?searchResultPosition=193
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-cost-of-a-decline-in-unions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/opinion/heat-wave-workers-climate.html?searchResultPosition=44
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opinion/caitlin-clark-wnba-salary.html?searchResultPosition=48
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/opinion/nebraska-senate-dan-osborn.html?searchResultPosition=30
The real pro-oligarchy paper is the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ never published a single opinion article saying good things about labor unions.
WSJ editors are explicitly told that if they do that, they will be fired. This is a direct order from the owner, Rupert Murdoch.
In fact, the WSJ has published countless opinion pieces praising right-to work laws, attacking labor unions, and calling for taxes on the rich to be massively slashed:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/workers-choice-is-the-way-forward-unions-employees-9847e341
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-right-to-work-rout-1533767899
Joe Biden named Lina Khan, an anti-monopoly activist, to head the FTC.
If you read the NYT, you will find several opinion articles praising Lina Khan for taking on huge corporations:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/opinion/lina-khan-ftc-venture-capital-silicon-valley.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/opinion/lina-khan-antitrust-harris.html
If you read Murdoch's WSJ, every opinion article attacks Lina Khan and defends huge corporations.
Every. Single. Article.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lina-khan-ftc-capri-tapestry-merger-antitrust-5a3627c1
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ftc-goes-evidence-free-lina-khan-pbm-healthcare-14076225
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lina-khan-federal-trade-commission-amazon-case-e2cce1c5
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-unfond-farewell-to-lina-khan-fabbf799
The NYT has also published many pieces demonizing Palestinians and downplaying Israeli war crimes. It even helped Israeli intelligence assets spread allegations about sexual violence on October 7 that couldn't be verified by other Journalists, human rights groups or the UN, but helped strongly in distracting from well documented and evidenced sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians they have taken hostage.
The NYTs defends the piece to this day, despite acknowledging:
"In February 2024, Schwartz was found to have liked incendiary posts on social media, including one calling to "turn the strip into a slaughterhouse", "violate any norm, on the way to victory", and that read "Those in front of us are human animals who do not hesitate to violate minimal rules."[2][23][24] The Times launched an investigation.[23] The Times was reviewing Schwartz's social media posts, and made a preliminary statement that such activity breaches company policy.[23][5] Schwartz subsequently locked and deleted her social media posts."
The NYT also simped for the Iraq invasion and bullied out their former Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges, because he dared to criticize that illegal war of aggression.
As for the role of the NYT in maintaining support for the Vietnam war and downplaying US involvement with far right extremist and fascist terror organizations and dictators in Central and South America, i recommend you to read "Manufacturing consent", which provides detailed evidence of how the NYT is part of the corporate media that ensures consent for US crimes against humanity and international law all around the world.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with "couldn't be verified by other journalists". The specific event discussed at the start of that section concerns an alleged rape that was not witnessed by a NYT reporter presonally. The evidence for it wasn't believed by some of her family, at least initially. That unfortunately seems fairly common for rape victims. Other descriptions about what happened that day were also from witness testimony, so it makes sense that details would disagree. It's expected to be fairly unreliable as evidence, but not to the extent it shouldn't be reported on.
Do you consider reports of sexual violence to be Israeli propaganda? Because while Hamas has denied that its fighters committed any sexual assaults, the UN has reported there was "a pattern indicative of sexual violence by Palestinian forces during the attack". The unverified part of the claim by Israel is not that it happened, but whether it was actually ordered by Hamas rather than just being opportunistic individuals. For the record, the UN has similarly reported Israeli forces doing the same to Palestinians with at least implicit encouragement from leadership following Oct. 7.
What you are doing is called moving the goal post. But I'll answer.
1. Hamas is not "The Palestinians". Saying Hamas committed bad things doesn't mean "demonizing palestinians".
2. The french media confirmed there were acts of sexual abuse on October 7. This is a very strange hill to die on.
3. The NYT has published stunning investigations into Israeli crimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000005933727/israel-gaza-medic-killed-rouzan-najjar.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/middleeast/gaza-medics-killed-israel.html
4. She wasn't a NYT journalist. She was a freelancer. She helped make the movie "Waltz with Bashir" and was described as a leftist. Her Facebook profile picture declared in Arabic that "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies'". The like was in question was posted on October 7. Upon learning this, on March 2024, the NYT ended her employment.
5. You are quoting The Intercept. That small newspaper also has reporters involved in ethical scandals. You want me to list them all?
6. The New York Times has published opinion pieces by several Palestinians and Israelis.
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opinion/palestine-war-empathy.html
Israeli: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/opinion/israel-war-hamas-sderot.html
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/opinion/israel-gaza-war-history.html
Israeli: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/opinion/israel-democracy-netanyahu-war.html
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/opinion/israel-netanyahu-palestinians.html
Israeli: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opinion/gaza-war-holocaust-shoah.html
Palestinian: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/opinion/palestine-leadership-war-israel.html
Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't like New York Times very much.
From december 2022:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/netanyahu-shreds-new-york-times-demonizing-israel-decades-after-scathing-editorial
i was providing evidence why the NYT is agenda driven. As for how they hide it, i already recommended you to read "Manufacturing Consent" where this is analyzed in detail.
Now you are moving goal posts and ignoring the fundamental problem. Also you selectively focus on the intercept, when multiple media outlets have investigated the NYT piece and found severe problems.
There is a substantial difference between factual reporting on sexual violence and letting a "former" intelligence officer who calls for genocide to completely fabricate cases and become unhinged in her claims. This also amounted to psychological violence against victims and family members who had to come out and deny the fabrications made by the New York Times. Imagine your family member is being murdered and a ruthless "former" intelligence officer is spreading inventions to make it more gruesome than it was and people being bullied to lie about it in order to support the governments propaganda efforts.
Again, i feel like the gravity of it cannot be understated. This piece was clearly a propaganda piece to help Israel maintain its image as the ICJ demanded measures to be taken by Israel to prevent committing genocide against Palestinians. Even as the evidence came in, the NYT doubled down, despite full well knowing who and what it does propaganda for with this piece.
The fact that the NYT occasionally lets Palestinian voices be heard only serves as a veil to create the idea of being unbiased. Again this is something that is well analyzed in "Manufacturing consent" and it isn't exclusive to the NYT. Most corporate media acts in similar fashion.
The United Nations special representative Pramila Patten released her full report on sexual assaults on October 7.
https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/report/mission-report-official-visit-of-the-office-of-the-srsg-svc-to-israel-and-the-occupied-west-bank-29-january-14-february-2024/20240304-Israel-oWB-CRSV-report.pdf
She concluded that sexual violence did indeed take place. The NYT didn't publish anything false.
The fact Hamas committed bad thing doesn't mean the NYT vilified Palestinians.
The NYT told the story of a Palestinian grandmother who refuses to leave her home in Gaza during bombardments because she already lost her home once, in 1948:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-diaspora-families.html
The NYT wrote stories about a Palestinian child orphaned by the air strike that killed dozens of her family members :
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-children-israel.html
There's no story that is more fiercely contested than Israel-Palestine drama , more mired in competing zero-sum narratives. It is nearly impossible to produce fair, accurate coverage without making all sides angry.
Does moving the goalpost mean that you agree that the nyt is pro middle class now?
I was okay with NYT until I saw the completely unfair and unbalanced way they treated Sanders vs Hillary, promoting every negative story about Sanders and nothing about Hillary. Taking Hillary's side on every issue and controversy. That was when I realized they just look liberal until there's any real change to the oligarchy proposed, and that's when the knives come out.
More recently they've been publishing all kinds of Israeli propaganda along the lines of "criticizing genocide = Antisemitism" when reporting on college protests and the like. This is the same stance the president is taking to deport or imprison innocent college students and cut funding off to these universities and the NYT is happy to help them do it by manipulating public opinion. They've been doing this stuff for over a hundred years now. Funnily enough back in WWII, they also sided with the Nazis and went out of their way to ignore or omit any mention of the holocaust. They continually like to be on the wrong side of history.
The NYT published nearly 1200 stories on the holocaust during WWII, it just was rarely on the front page. They should have emphasized it more, but that's hardly "siding with the Nazis". You are free to criticize them for not doing enough at the time but you could say the same thing about the world as a whole.
The NYT ran more “her emails” than any other story that year. They gave trump a free pass, like everybody else. They created this hellscape as much as any corporate news outlet, and in many cases, more so.