While NYT etc mostly stand back as the U.S. crosses the rubicon, what started as a freaking gadget review site seems to employ nearly all the journalists with actual gusto left in America.
it’s pretty rich to both decry media literacy issues in sibling comments while completely elastically using the word “listicle”
Were I to recommend anybody join anti-LE riots (which I categorically do not, in this case), and if I even remotely cared about the wellbeing of my readers (which the author categorically does not, in this case), I would touch on those types of details instead of stringing quasi-random affiliate links together using sob stories, self-congratulations and agitprop.
if you’ll indulge me, i’m excited to hear how you have “categorically” decided the author’s intentions
one nit: surely you, of all hacker news commenters, have the extraordinary media literacy to know that the journos themselves do not add the affiliate links or pocket the affiliate link search arbitrage
my job here is done, but i’m here if you need any more help
Bonus points if someone actually puts some money towards a human journalist by just treating it as an affiliate listicle.
So apparently they were once a 'gadget site'
Personally I prefer the ones that make it clear where they stand as opposed to subtly influencing you while masquerading as "neutral".
It may comfort you to imagine the NYT's editorial stance as the last thing holding back a revolution, but I guarantee that is not the case. That may change some wannabe liberal elites to wannabe revolutionaries, but the elites who you actually want to change will get their news someplace else.
I mostly agree with you, I also read zero hedge, al jazeera and other media whose stance I don't broadly agree with.
To me NYT is actually pretty conservative, but YMMV