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Originally Posted by murg
In the case of the NYT, experience has taught us that in any reporting on Amazon, the NYT is being a tabloid, in that they will be quite happy to take isolated worst-case cases and propagandise them into the common place.
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In Philadelphia, our Pulitzer-prize winning tabloid
Daily News is famed for presenting the public with anecdotal evidence of police corruption.
Good newspapers, tabloid or broadsheet, search out such evidence. They do this in investigating governments, and should, as here, apply the same focus to big business.
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Originally Posted by TimW
Since I don't know both sides of a given situation, I decline to accept unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence.
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Times interviewed about a hundred current and former employees, and reported on what they told them. Anecdotal? Sure. Isolated? Doesn't look like it is to me.
They also gave Amazon an opportunity for rebuttal before and after original publication, and wrote about both. Their Public Editor's column partially took Amazon's side. Maybe if you read the Times more, you'll have more of both sides.