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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s behind a paywall so I can’t read the article and comment. Please remember not everyone has a subscription to NYT. These posts with links that people can’t see are annoying.[/quote]

If you're already hitting the paywall, it means you've read your articles for the month.

Subscribe you cheap f#ck. Good journalism isn't free.[/quote]

NYT is not good journalism. Why would I pay for it?[/quote]
Most likely the same reason you pay for FOX on cable.[/quote]

I don't pay for Fox or cable either. But I do know bad journalism riddled with biases and lies and gross misinterpretation and deliberate stoking the hysteria of its audience (of which Fox is also guilty, FYI), and written by journalists who too frequently get caught lying. It's been 20 years since I stopped paying much attention to the NYT when it became clear the paper deliberately panders to a specific audience aka preaching to the choir, and offers very little actual informative and objective reporting.

As for the agony auntie meme in this thread, which is typical of the dubious ethics columns inventing furor when there was none I vaguely remember from the paper before I stopped reading it, I used to fly regularly and would have only changed seats if I received an equivalent seat elsewhere. I'm not sure why I should be more considerate of *other* people's families when they are *not concerned* about me. Thankfully most of my flights were international so I rarely had any issues, but the one time I did willingly agree to change seats so a family group could sit together, on a flight from the UK to the US, the new seat was directly under a broken AC vent that could not be turned off, and the plane was fully booked and I couldn't be moved again, which meant a draft of frigid air directly on my head and ear the entire flight (in December!) and resulted in a cold the next day. Just in time for Christmas. Lesson learned. It was not my problem that particular family had failed to get their act together and booked seats for their teen kids together.

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