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News is completely different from how it was a decade ago, and NYT has hired most of the best writers from every other company. They even have the Buzzfeed guy doing his strange media reporting beat where he reports on things inside the NYT as if he didn't work there.

It's really not worth ignoring them even if their politics reporting is still so terrible to the point they let Peter Baker work for them.

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Whats wrong with Peter Baker?

He's a hack who was going to leave and cover Israel, but was called back to cover Trump because he has a lot of Republican sources… aka he just publishes whatever they tell him and claims it's true because they said it was true.

This is one of the reasons so many people think Trump-Russia was a hoax even though he obviously actually did it and both the Mueller report and the Republican Senate investigation said he did it.

He's also part of the NYT's gang of terminal both-sides/horse race political reporters, I believe to the point of not voting because he doesn't want to take a side.

In your judgement, which comparable organization has done better overall than NYT? They do cover a broad range of topics.

WaPo is similar audience and not nearly as bad. Foreign news organizations are probably better though.

The few times I was able to read something without the annoying paywall jumping in my face, I was disappointed and disgusted with the quality of what I read and the asinine opinions offered. I too abhor the NYT.

> News is completely different from how it was a decade ago

The article in question is very, VERY clearly not news.

It's opinion. It's a flow of thoughts. It's conjecture.

It's a bunch of things to keep our eyeballs glued, but it is most definitely NOT news.

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