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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
The mere fact that people prattle about the "corporate" New York Times (as if all major newspapers weren't corporate) while giving the New York Post a free pass suggests a deeper bias that is political in nature.
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Maybe, but your own back and forth, pro-NY Times/anti-NY Times post, shows that this isn't left/right political in nature, as both sides attack the Times:
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Like every other national paper, this one has a corporate agenda which involves lying on a regular basis.
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There is only one other US general interest news gathering* national newspaper, the Washington Post. and the Post faces the same sorts of politicized attacks.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Which is why no one who wants to understand world events relies on this or any other standard U.S. paper to tell them the whole story.
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That's where serious non-fiction current affairs books, most of them published by the equally reviled big six publishers, come into play.
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* I don't mention USA Today here because it is primarily an aggregator of news gathered by others.