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The sad decline of media into partisanship.

The New York Times is as partisan in its readership as MSNBC or Fox(!!).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/01/americans-m...

>The New York Times is as partisan

That article talks about the reader's partisanship, not the actual content or particular news org.

Seeing as the article is about the NYT newsroom, it's not limited to the readership. And the article directly says it's not just the readers: "a large portion of the paper’s audience, a number of its employees, and the president himself saw it as aligned with the #resistance."

Just because the NYT newsroom is partisan doesn't mean it's as partisan as those of MSNBC or Fox.

> The New York Times is as partisan in its readership

Yes, that's what the parent said.

What you link to doesn't back your claim. It tells me that people think orgs are partisan, not that they actually are.

GP is making a claim about the readership, not the orgs themselves.

If I said "all the audience of Fox is confused - Fox is actually left-wing, it's just a bunch of confused right-wingers who used it as their primary source of news", would you believe me?

The audience tells you the message. There's a reason no one calls Fox left-wing, or NYT right-wing.

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