Comments on: Living with an insular media http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/10/31/living-with-an-insular-media/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Pete Zaitcev http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/10/31/living-with-an-insular-media/comment-page-1/#comment-35831 Pete Zaitcev Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:59:30 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=470#comment-35831 There is nothing quality about NYT. Have you heard about Jason Blair? Least you think the Blair affair is in the past, their anime reviewer is a pathological hater of anime Charles Solomon. He also tends to write reviews without actually watching the show, or watching without paying any attention. Then he fabricates the review. Which is exactly the same thing which Jason Blair did. I remember how at Blair times bloggers were writing that the rot spread into gardening articles (well, those bloggers who cared about gardening). I certainly can believe them now. My local town newspaper Tracy Press does better hard nosed reporting against our city government than Times ever did. For example, they exposed our new fire chief as former felon. And NYT did what? That's right, exposed completely legal government anti-terrorist program (their ombudsman said he's sorry - many months after the damage was done). Oh, and they also ate lies of Joe Wilson and tried to inflate so-called "Plame affair". Never said they were sorry about that one. In other words, NYT is crap in small and big alike. If they pander your political prejustices, that's a good reason for you to like it, but don't pretend that it's anything about "quality". There is nothing quality about NYT. Have you heard about Jason Blair? Least you think the Blair affair is in the past, their anime reviewer is a pathological hater of anime Charles Solomon. He also tends to write reviews without actually watching the show, or watching without paying any attention. Then he fabricates the review. Which is exactly the same thing which Jason Blair did. I remember how at Blair times bloggers were writing that the rot spread into gardening articles (well, those bloggers who cared about gardening). I certainly can believe them now.

My local town newspaper Tracy Press does better hard nosed reporting against our city government than Times ever did. For example, they exposed our new fire chief as former felon. And NYT did what? That’s right, exposed completely legal government anti-terrorist program (their ombudsman said he’s sorry – many months after the damage was done). Oh, and they also ate lies of Joe Wilson and tried to inflate so-called “Plame affair”. Never said they were sorry about that one.

In other words, NYT is crap in small and big alike. If they pander your political prejustices, that’s a good reason for you to like it, but don’t pretend that it’s anything about “quality”.

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