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anildash.com • 11 days ago

🤣 I wonder if NYT gets discounts on their health insurance since phlebotomists have such an easy time drawing blood through skin so incredibly thin.

Reposted from Anil Dash

MY LIEGE, I BEG OF YOU, PITY THIS MORTAL HIS HUBRIS! I did not mean to suggest that the Grey Lady could fail! We know that it can only _be_ failed. Obviously the story is perfect, and the past coverage? Even more perfect! I will not again transgress in this way.

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malmer.com•11 days ago

I see he's still on the "what else could we have done?" schtick.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•11 days ago

They covered everything. Sometimes on p23 behind a sleep-inducing title like "Trump posits question about power of executive branch" but yeah they covered it.

self.agency•11 days ago

bouie blocked me after following me because i said it was unethical to make a living writing for the times in its present manifestation

cbowers.bsky.social•11 days ago

That seems like a reasonable action

self.agency•11 days ago

i didnt say it _to_ him

jevaun.bsky.social•11 days ago

These gutless wonders want to undermine our democracy for clicks and access, but also demand that we love and respect them while they do it. FOH.

ireneadlercal.bsky.social•11 days ago

He just blocked me too! He’s busy today!

anildash.com•11 days ago

(Everybody is always welcome — and encouraged! — to block early and often for anybody they find annoying, but my critique in that thread was as polite and even-tempered a take about the Times’ coverage as you’re gonna see.)

anildash.com•11 days ago

More to the point, Lipton presumably does not know (and now _cannot_ know) that I’ve been a White House advisor on digital strategy, including during the time period when the U.S. Digital Service was first stood up. The arrogance of being unwilling to take criticism also loses them credible sources.

anildash.com•11 days ago

One of the earliest NYT mentions of Musk’s accelerating right-wing extremism was in Krugman’s column; the source for that was my blog, and the at he knew about that was me being obnoxious in the mentions. Actually. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html

anildash.com•11 days ago

I don’t mention this (merely) as apologia for reply guys, but also showing that old media institutionalists *still* don’t understand the dynamics of how social media interacts with legacy media. Even after its power literally took over the world.

caspiancey.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is really cool backstory.

pieist.xenoplasm.com•11 days ago

Yeesh

mellowwayne.bsky.social•11 days ago

As a, back again subscriber, I am incensed daily, so I wrote them on one issue.

Their news assistant was tasked with reply with a response, clearly a form letter of some kind alas, talk about out of touch.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JsJ8kfEtD0pkXp8bFkwd5UBNJv1g1z7iIJ0LTbzVsk/edit

mellowwayne.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s this part that truly pisses me off.

“Overuse of a term like lie can dilute its power, so even if our editors might have a suspicion that he knows something isn't true, they might opt for caution when there’s a chance he doesn't.
…

mellowwayne.bsky.social•11 days ago

…We want to ensure that our readers understand what we mean when we do use that term: He knows something isn't true and said it anyway because he wants to deceive the public.
…

mellowwayne.bsky.social•11 days ago

…I believe similar thinking informs our use of illegal as well. Generally, we don't say in our own voice whether something is illegal because it's often not that cut and dry.
We'll quote experts who say it is, or might be, or historically has been.
…

malderi.bsky.social•11 days ago

No arrogance more visible than thinking you're at the top of the game... while everyone looks down on you.

minpinmom.bsky.social•11 days ago

Isn’t that the kind of thing a person who writes at the times should know? Like maybe not at first, but he could look you up? Idk, they’re just so bad in all the ways that matter

anildash.com•11 days ago

I mean, I don't expect them to know it! I expect them to be curious so that they _could_ know it.

minpinmom.bsky.social•11 days ago

Exactly!! We must have the most uncurious journalists right now!!! There’s so much to know

peterdcarlson.bsky.social•11 days ago

Lotta that going around at NYT. I got blocked by Elias Isquith the producer of the Ezra Klein podcast for very similar feedback.

robinsmartinez.bsky.social•11 days ago

Wow. Now I have to re-think my subscription to the Times.

bkjwordplay.bsky.social•11 days ago

I find it's often not about the polite discussion, rather than not wanting to look bad in front of their many followers. It's like cable news hosts: Come on, but play the game. If you make me look bad, Blocked. It's my show.

wflbc.bsky.social•11 days ago

He keeps posting one article from less than two weeks before the election. Lol.

markears.bsky.social•11 days ago

I blocked the NYTimes - by cancelling my subscription after decades.

mrfresh.bsky.social•11 days ago

I've stopped tryna find the reasons why people block. I know and stay mindful of what I post for various reasons, so I know mine aren't annoying/damaging/whatever, yet I get block notifications....ask me if how I care about THAT! LOL

ohiohawkeye.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh my god they are such snowflakes.

librarianjenne.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s wild how they made it to (allegedly) the peak of “journalism” without ever facing the tiniest iota of criticism.

insortediaboli.bsky.social•11 days ago

Maybe I wasn’t too harsh on him then lol

3fecta.bsky.social•11 days ago

jscottcory.bsky.social•11 days ago

☠️🧊

newsferatu.bsky.social•11 days ago

Wondering whether the Gray Lady's pallor might be a result of having been bled out by leeches for privileged access and cheap clicks

sdiver100.bsky.social•11 days ago

🔥

casbo.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s not limited to big accounts like yours either. He blocked me for one post criticizing their coverage. Which fine, not like he’s doing anything I need to see but still funny how thin skinned they are as an org.

anildash.com•11 days ago

Also, if they said they want social feedback to take the place of a public editor, how exactly is that supposed to work?

casbo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Lol yes exactly. Funny how they tried to make no accountability sound so noble, “let the people be our public editor!” Followed by “wait, no, we decided we don’t like criticism at all.”

nameshiv.bsky.social•11 days ago

he's probably gonna do the block for a week and then unblock thing, its what he did when I told him he was doing a bad job shilling his paper for this audience

3fecta.bsky.social•11 days ago

Like Susan Collins, he believe you learned your lesson after that time out.

nameshiv.bsky.social•11 days ago

though you were like 9000 times nicer than I was

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