What news organizations can we really trust now?
Such an idea ran contrary to my long held sentiment for the NYT as rational and unbiased but I am seeing it more and more.
[1] Chomsky writes about this in Understanding Power.
One tool we do have now is the ability to subscribe to youtubers and similar people who try to make a living from telling you about the news. The benefit here is that you have them search through news for you and then give you a summary or analysis.
Obviously I won’t mention names because someone will immediate chime in to start an argument. You’ll have to do your own digging.
It basically describe the now pretty common practice of trawling social media sites and forums for something which can be made into news, conducted by very large news papers like NYT.
In my view its a kind of low effort data mining when there is news droughts. Nothing to report? Then go and look up the all the employed truck drivers in the nation and see if you can find one that does not have a driver license (it most likely exist one or two). It does not ask if the portion of truck drivers that have lost their license is higher than the overall population, or provide any insight into the profession, but rather just want to attract reader attention by highlighting something which look controversial.
This article is about a social media post, by a journalist at the NYTimes, accusing a highly visible person of using a slur that never actually happened. And once corrected, this reporter basically hides and asks why everyone is attacking her.
He’s using this event as an example of an on-going issue.
I believe they are agreeing with Greenwald, and saying that the Times reporter is the one in the wrong.
Or this is just a vexing parse for me