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Maybe "major media" should include tech media like The Register, Ars Technica, Tech Dirt, etc.. Unlike with media like the NYT, Bloomberg or Reuters, I've never seen a story for which these sites were the best source and much of what they publish is blogspam summarizing stories that have already been posted on HN, usually with a votebait title.

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Yes, those sites are all downweighted. Whether they count as "major media" or not, they're classified the same way by HN's software, for more or less the same reason: they produce a lot of derivative and/or sensational and/or otherwise not-great-for-HN content, and they also produce substantive articles that are good for HN.

This is mad take. Also, putting junk that nyt writes together with Reuters is just wrong.

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