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Am I being cynical or is this just an ad? Every other person is cancelling their subscription to NYT from a piece that went up yesterday, and now this shows up on the front page of HN the day after?

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To be fair, the discussion on Twitter (where I got the link from) is mostly about "unpaid freelancers" part:

https://twitter.com/robinhenig/status/858347023308910596

https://twitter.com/mslopatto/status/858354324425949184

https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/858309371612286976

What NYT piece are you referring to?

I guess: http://www.businessinsider.de/bret-stephens-new-york-times-c...

That's very entertaining. I wonder what other sort of guest editorial could prompt such a reaction? Probably not the best business move for NYT, to further explore that question...

I saw one person who claims to have cancelled their subscription. The rest of the embedded tweets are either threatening to cancel or justifying "why they cancelled" (before the op-ed). Makes you wonder who these furiously cancelling people are and whether Business Insider bothered to reach them for comment.

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