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2017-07-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

New York Times editing cuts mean doing more with less. Will credibility suffer?

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Posted by gorb 2017-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Is this from the Onion?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-07-07 00:12|| 2017-07-07 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame it on the spell checker.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-07-07 00:14|| 2017-07-07 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait... they still have credibility?

According to whom? Their fucking mothers?!?!?!

Posted by DarthVader 2017-07-07 00:16|| 2017-07-07 00:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Crowd source editing and fact checking, like Wiki. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-07 07:35|| 2017-07-07 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Journalists are supposed to report the news fairly and accurately, not to make stuff up to cause people to do things they normally wouldn't.

“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” – William Randolph Hearst, January 25, 1898

Don't confuse a brief infection of 'integrity' for the normal and much longer pathology of 'journalism'. It's always been this way. They originated as political broadsheets. It was when it was discovered they could actually make money as an advertizing instrument as well, that some of the partisan fever subsided. Now that advertizing is down, the fever is back up.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-07 07:41|| 2017-07-07 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Crowd source editing and fact checking, like Wiki. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

It depends. Will Besoeker be reading your comment? ;-)

Posted by gorb 2017-07-07 08:29|| 2017-07-07 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 2*0=0

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-07 10:28|| 2017-07-07 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Crowd source editing and fact checking, like Wiki.

Already done -- that's what the letters to the editor section is for.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-07-07 13:16|| 2017-07-07 13:16|| Front Page Top

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