Could there be some signs of life in the legacy media? By “life,” of course, I mean “a return to actual objective reporting, as opposed to yellow journalism, panic-mongering, partisanship, and outright dishonesty.”
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The New York Times was once the nation’s newspaper of record. I remember being a little kid, going into a magazine store in a small town in eastern Iowa in the early ’70s, and asking the Old Man why the Times was on sale even in our little Iowa community. “Because,” Dad said, “It’s pretty much the nation’s newspaper.” It was, then, back when the media was mostly still newsprint.
In recent years, the Gray Lady has become a hyper-partisan fish-wrapper. It was interesting to see them do some actual reporting on the checkered background of the Big Apple’s Democrat nominee for mayor, and it was telling that not only NYT readers but staff were