Tracking the front page of the New York Times

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Most excellent. After systematically scraping the nyt homepage and exploring some (undocumented) apis, the author quantifies “how much of the homepage is straight news vs puff/opinion/other?”

Answer: ~48%

Logically, the next step was to create a “news-only” version of the nyt homepage: https://nyt.tjcx.me/?tone=NEWS

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