ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... - ThreadSky

owillis.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us"

me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/21/2305235/-New-York-Times-caught-passing-off-GOP-flack-as-average-Black-voter

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bibliophile01.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Not surprising. They 'sane-washed' the Felon's incoherent gibberish on the campaign trail and 'normalized' his candidacy. And by doing so transformed a monster into a legitimate contender. And so here we are.

flglchicago.bsky.social•20 hours ago

For a brief shining decade (1970s) the Times lived its mission as a tentpole of truth and the Fourth Estate. They abandoned that mission under the Reagan admin; since, it's been an ever accelerating downhill into corruption, incompetence, and outright lying in the service of the rich and powerful.

rocknrollghost.bsky.social•15 hours ago

My decision to cancel my subscription is again proven sound.

dreamblu.bsky.social•20 hours ago

How they have any subscribers is beyond me.

anamarie26.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It’s really that simple. Let’s try to wait for the results first, and if nothing happens, that’s when we can show sympathy.

But for me, I don’t really believe it’s true either.😁

oggie.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I honestly feel like the answer as to why they did this is 'we couldn't find any other well informed black man who had this viewpoint, so we had to pick this person who we assume is representative '

melpsoul.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I’m going to scream now in frustration

yinzboy.bsky.social•20 hours ago

If they weren't a bunch of self-important blowhard idiots, they'd be embarrassed.

But they're not embarrassed. They're just complicit.

davidnir.com•18 hours ago

Okay, then, just so's you know, it's not actually called a "trigon"

angryallosaurus.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Wikipedia says quadrilaterals are occasionally known as tetragons, so there's no reason a triangle couldn't also be a trigon. 😉

comehereaminute.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Harsh but fair!

bluelion70.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Wow, the @nytimes.com is sycophantically just shilling for the regime again? What a fucking surprise…

This “newspaper” needs to go bankrupt immediately. I don’t understand why anyone is still willing to pay them for a subscription.

opaoni.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The Times and WaPo have to be considered just as dishonest as Fox News.

pauldevine.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Lesson #1: Truth is faster than a burger

jajajaboo.bsky.social•20 hours ago

They constantly put forward party operatives as some normal individuals.. and get caught on it! You have to think they would either start checking the people’s background or just don’t care/ in on it

nikkiiiiiiiii.bsky.social•15 hours ago

nyt is just USA’s der stürmer

khazad-dum.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Cheerleader of Establishment propaganda since 1851!

Motto: "Never a war we didn't love and support!"

stickybit.bsky.social•18 hours ago

In their attempt to be "fair and balanced" when they can't find any of the black people who voted for Trump who think he's doing a good job, they cheat. "I know where we can find one. Get the head of the black Rep for Trump." If 99% say water is wet, no one needs to hear from the 1% who don't

shhhhh-hush.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Well said.

josephebacon.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's time to boycott the Times and their advertisers.

austenlied.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I think someone posted that they’ve done this before too. It’s exceptionally bad journalism to not do a basic search.

francesljames.bsky.social•15 hours ago

They also just published a sympathetic profile of an unrepentant J6 rioter.

red-lands-on-bsky.bsky.social•10 hours ago

More than 2 million African Americans voted for Trump. I'm pretty sure they're not all "Republican operatives."

flavadave.bsky.social•18 hours ago

terrejpwdc.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Yep, that article made me sick.

stierholz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

They’ve now made a correction to the story. Good work.

swiffy.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Do you want any help with geometry?

bluememe.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The obvious difference is that you want the truth, while the publisher of NYT wants to support the GOP narrative.

walterdragon.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Everyone needs to stop buying this fucking newspaper.

realnewsnow1.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Disingenuous “reporting” : how demeaning, sloppy and unacceptable,

dirtside.bsky.social•20 hours ago

NYT's parent company is publicly traded, and mostly owned by billionaire-run firms like Vanguard/Blackrock/etc. They're not just well-intentioned bumblers, they're actively choosing to be like this.

Know who owns your news sources; favor independent sources: https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-independent-media/

trtlla.bsky.social•15 hours ago

My impression was that the problematic editorial decisions at the NYT were made by the Sulzberger family whose scion is the current executive editor. I have no real knowledge about this, just doomscrolling, so I could be wrong.

trtlla.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Oops. A.G. Sulzberger is the chairman and publisher not the executive editor.

See how wrong I am?

dirtside.bsky.social•14 hours ago

i mean, to a large degree the nature of the editors only matter so much because a news outlet's output is always going to reflect what its owners want. even if they're righteous and hire good people, if they're billionaires then the outlet's output is going to reflect that. 1/

dirtside.bsky.social•14 hours ago

like it was great that katherine graham chose to publish the Pentagon Papers but she was still filthy rich and her wapo would never have written significant stories about exploitation of labor, for example. we can still commend a good story but they're going to be the exception 2/

dirtside.bsky.social•14 hours ago

so even if the NYT of today sometimes writes good stories, it's by accident, by and large they're doing the will of their billionaire owners, by way of their editorial management. this is deliberate, not whoopsie-daisy. they should not be anywhere close to our first source for news end/

pittsburghdan.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Pretty glad I canceled my subscription in 2023

grungehamster.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Listen: if you know what opinion you need to present to achieve the right narrative balance in a piece, far easier to track down an established exception rather than actually asking the man on the street what he thinks. That's journalism, baybee!

stgibbon.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Don't worry, they're working on fixing that. (Making it so Google doesn't tell you information)

debpolston.bsky.social•20 hours ago

NYT? Yes, ultimately, but who is on the byline? Start naming the journalists who get it wrong!

springle15.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I stopped paying attention when they started sane-washing and minimizing the violent rhetoric coming from these fascists supporting the orange-painted gasbag!

owillis.bsky.social•20 hours ago

i started out blogging in 2000 because i was mad about the election. by 2003 i was writing in response to outlets like the times pushing lies that were being debunked in real time about things like wmd. ive been professionally writing since 2007.

owillis.bsky.social•20 hours ago

i have respect for journalism and research but i never ever ever default to a person or institution just because theyve been at it a long time. thats actually, imo, the best way to further bullshit, cause people price in your past and think you wont lie. but the times does.

mrl53.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I try always to check out those quoted in the news.
I often find them to be very much involved.
Not a common man.

carlyjdubois.com•20 hours ago

I’m violating company policy by saying this, but thank you.

owillis.bsky.social•20 hours ago

ps i still suck at geometry

genxgamer.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Trust but verify

If your mom says she loves you, check it out.

extra-jon.bsky.social•13 hours ago

If it's the NY times. Assume it's a damn lie and read something else.

lori-holland0517.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Gonna chime in here because I got a D in high school geometry. Math ain’t my thing. Never was. I read. Voraciously. I graduated from high school 40 yrs ago. Never needed or used geometry for anything. Ever! But I read everyday, all the time, everywhere.

omfproductions.bsky.social•20 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/omfproductions.bsky.social/post/3lipnuzcgik2x
Har.

I am having the worst day in a long time but I got to make this terrible MtG joke.

joevera.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Same

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