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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who don't subscribe to newspapers who complain about the news should shut the fkcu up. You're part of the problem. [/quote]

No, we should not.  Sorry you don't like the stance or the opinion.  I would tell you that it is you that should SFTU but its easier to let you keep talking so people see what you say and make up their own mind, like a adult would.[/quote]

You are a freeloader. If you don’t pay, then don’t read (and definitely don’t complain). Newspapers are not charities. [/quote]

You’re correct, they are not charities. I used to gladly pay for several. I did this not because of “democracy” but because I wanted real news, excellent writing, excellent analysis, and some storytelling. I’ve dropped all of my subscriptions over the past several years. Today’s 4,000-word (?) essay in the NYT by an actual staff editor about whether Taylor Swift is sending her coded clues about bisexuality is a perfect example of failing on all fronts — bad writing, bad thinking to the point of possible mental health delusion, bad editing. Pathetic and depressing. [/quote]

I saw a comment online about the 5k- word Taylor Swift sexuality fan fic fever dream essay in the NYT that said: I once thought being a writer or editor at the NYT was for the smartest and most talented.

This person is right — it once was! Ditto the Post, etc. And they aren’t anymore. Those days have been gone for nearly two decades.

The bananas Swift essay is the sort of reporting and writing (or the Post piece on the dishwashers, or the NPR piece on trans people in California’s wine industry, and a million more examples) is the wildly dumbed down and irrelevant journalism that’s everywhere. [/quote]

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