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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 111 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remember that time the NYT published Judith Miller's stenography for the Bush Administration's lies leading up to the war in Iraq? I'm sure they learned their lesson from that debacle, though.

I wonder what Media Bias Fact Check has to say about them?

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER

Factual Reporting: HIGH

Country: USA

Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE

Media Type: Newspaper

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

What a goddamned joke.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

The NYT was shitty long before that. They famously did not cover the Holocaust. Not the run up, and not even during the war.

When the camps were liberated, Americans at home had no idea who was in the camps.

The owner of the NYT was later asked about their failures in covering the Holocaust and the buildup, and said with a shrug "the NYT didn't really cover the Holocaust".

As a note the owner of the NYT was Jewish. But didn't want to be associated with poor Jews.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

didn’t want to be associated with poor Jews.

Emphasis mine.

It's class warfare all the way down.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I hadn't heard this, anything you can link to for deeper reading?

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I really wish Rooki would listen to the community about this silly bot. But they won't, and their staunch defense in the face of criticism suggests an ulterior motive.

Tinfoil hat time: I think they got a Ground News sponsor for Lemmy (GN started an ad campaign just as this started) and are trying to look unbiased by having both GN and MBFC... in every single news post.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Yeah I had a similar feeling about ground news. I had assumed the bot was at least created by someone who works there, using whatever algorithm that site uses to rate sources. The fact that’s it’s mentioned in every post really rubs me the wrong way, on top of how shitty the bot is at doing what it’s supposed to. And yet, it’s still around. What do we have to do to finally get rid of it?

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Am I late or oblivious? Is grte the bot? I couldn’t tell from the post history. Or is this way, way over my old-aged head?

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

No, as far as I know @grte@lemmy.ca was just quoting the @MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world bot to show how shitty it is.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 months ago

They also kept doubling down on their reporting of systemic sexual violence on Oct 7. Family members of the victims disputed that sexual violence was a component of their murders. They have not retracted this reporting.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The "great" part about how absolute shit NYT is, is how after the "great media consolidation" ~15 years ago when most of the major outlets were bought by billionaires the first thing they did was cut their investigation and research departments in favor of "copying" the NYT stories...

They don't care about quality, or content, they're the typical business school jackass type that thinks "ThE BrAnD mEAnS eVeRyThInG!" As in: you'll eat whatever I serve and you'll keep doing it because of the name I bought.

Same shit is happening with so called "AAA" game developers (Bethesda... Among others) except this isn't fucking clothing. Gucci sells because people want the name. The Washington Post can go fuck themselves, no one but Bezos cares about the name.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

NYT will go further and count it as 2 separate lies and clearly demonstrate how both sides are basically the same

FUCK NYT

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

TRUMP: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Fox News: cums

[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

For people asking what this is about, I didn't look at the NYT because of the paywall, but here's an article that's very similar in tone from NPR.

Although they do state

The dozen Harris statements lacking in context are far less in comparison to 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies that NPR found from Trump’s hour-long news conference Aug. 8.

the following items are really nit-picky. It's laid out as a list of misleading statements, but reading the details of each makes me think "ok, so basically true, then".

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago

I feel like some loud conservatives made NPR freak out and now they're trying to sprinkle in stories like this.

Because the moment conservatives run things again, they'll absolutely continue gutting public radio.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's because back in April some right-wing nutjob editor quit NPR claiming an atmosphere of bias. So he fled to right-wing outlets (where he conveniently ignores their right-wing bias) and now NPR decides they need to go back to balancing the scales of the BoTh SiDeS bullshit.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245283076/npr-editor-uri-berliner-resigns-ceo-katherine-maher

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[-] Narwhalrus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Some of the "misleading" statements were Harris neglecting to enumerate the reasons why a stated policy goal might not succeed, which would be incredibly unusual to include in a speech of this nature.

I guess the point the author was trying to make was that saying you "will" do something in office is a promise, and if you don't have the ability to guarantee that promise can be kept you shouldn't say that thing at all? I love me some NPR but they're really bending over backwards with some of these...

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I don't get it, is the joke that NYT is secretly pro trump or something?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 54 points 2 months ago

It's that they're fact checking trivialities. You have one fact check where Trump says "The stock market was up 10,000% during my Presidency". Then there's another fact check where Kamala says "I remember seeing the sunset in Pittsburgh that day" when she was already gone by mid afternoon. These are rated as equal lies in the tally.

It's not so much that they are deliberately pro Trump. It's that their need for false "balance" and "objectivity" stops them from calling out any one side when the lies are so much more egregious.

There's a recent Behind the Bastards podcast that covers how the liberal media handled the rise of Adolf Hitler, including the New York Times. The reasons for their behavior haven't changed, they never did any post-war introspection on what went wrong, and they're making exactly the same mistakes with Trump. The only media that can look back on that time and be proud of how they reported it were explicitly communist newspapers that never tried to hide their bias.

Trump can complain about the "liberal media" as much as he wants. He needs them to behave in exactly the way they do or he wouldn't get anywhere.

[-] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That’s exactly why he’s complaining. He knows they’ll pull this shit so they can claim to be fair. He may be an idiot, but he’s an expert at manipulating the press.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Secretly? Ever read a Maggie Haberman column?

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

By this point it's well established fact that the Times is far more likely to attack Democrats over relatively trivial points when it ought to be attacking Republicans over important points. There's various speculation as to why. Ownership of the newspaper is a factor. Trying to appear centrist is definitely a second factor.

And that newspaper does a very bad job of it. But I sympathize with any paper who tries to be centrist because at some point you either align your reporting with reality or you lose credibility. And many of us realize years ago that the Times just doesn't have much credibility to spare.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

It’s hard for sociopaths to believe that there are people who aren’t sociopaths

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

NO.

The aspects of a day are assigned to the quarters of the day in the same way as the seasons of the year are broken up between the solstices and the equinoxes.

Ergo, as it is for a year:

  • winter: winter solstice to spring equinox
  • spring: spring equinox to summer solstice
  • summer: summer solstice to fall equinox
  • fall: fall equinox to winter solstice

So is it for a day:

  • night: midnight to 6am
  • morning: 6am to noon
  • afternoon: noon to 6pm
  • evening: 6pm to midnight
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I think the point here is it's a really stupid and pedantic criticism that they don't apply equally to Trump and Vance.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

That's a pretty controversial take. I don't think anyone would call 5am "night" if they woke up at that time, but just really early morning. Same with 11pm being evening is more to do if weather you're still awake or not. These are fuzzy definitions that are more about vibes than precisely what the clock says.

Same with the seasons really. There's the definition you've given, and then there's the one that's more about the seasonal differences in the region. Winter where I live for example starts in November (probably around Remembrance day if I were to pin it down). It's silly too wait until the solstice to consider it winter when there's been over a month of snow on the ground and freezing temps.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"He came to me and said, 'Good Morning!'"

"The nerve!"

"'I hope you have a great day!'"

"The nerve!!"

"And I was like, 'WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO??'"

"Fuck Walz! He's got eyeballs for testicles!"

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3_OGnROMo)

[-] netvor@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

OT, but as a non-native English speaker, what would you say in a greeting like that if it was, say, 1:00 AM?

What would you say, "Good _____"?

Doesn't "Good night" come with a strong connotation of leaving and going to sleep? (Or expecting the other side to do so?)

(I'm from Czech Republic and we just don't have such term.)

[-] deathbysnusnu@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

In Australia, G'day works 24 hours.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Evening or Morning would work there. Good Night is typically a parting idiom. Even if it's technically correct.

[-] tokeholdlaunch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You are correct. Good night means that whatever you've been doing is over. The media is bending over backwards trying to appear "fair", but it just results in moments like this.

It's the tan suit scandal all over again.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

No, you'd say "good evening" in the U.S.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

"Halt! You are in violation of curfew!"

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

I've found that the answer depends on what region of the US you're from. The UK probably does it differently, but I'm with @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world. If it's dark out, you're definitely greeting with "good evening."

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Lying fake news media doesn't want Americans to know about our big beautiful VP candidate!! The failing New York Times once again showing it's tremendously unfair bias! Sad!

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