I hated to do it, but I canceled my NY Times subscription.

[spooky3]

I don’t know how else to get through to them that they are falling far short of high journalistic standards. Just glance through their “Opinion” page and see all the attacks on Biden.

[shrike3]

1. I think their noses are out of joint.

Biden has not sat down with them for an interview during his presidency, and they feel "dissed." Thus, a sort of revenge. "See what happens when you don't do what we want?" I wish I had a subscription to cancel.

[spooky3]

2. I think you're right. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are insufferable

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on MSNBC.

[shrike3]

10. Baker sort of gave the game away in that one interview.

Biden "hasn't had an interview with a major newspaper." IOW, he hasn't sat down with the NYT, and lord we can't have that.

You're right about them both being insufferable.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Wish I could drop mine.

But I already did, over Judith Miller's shit-show. Haven't seen much worthwhile since then.

[spooky3]

4. Well, there's Wordle. Seriously, I like many of their articles

But I’m really angry that they seem to be playing Kool Kids Klub rather than recognizing the serious threat to democracy we are facing.

[orleans]

12. i cancelled my nytimes subscription a few months ago b/c i couldn't stand reading their crap

headlines and articles that seemed to lean anti dem anti biden. (fuck that)

anyway, i just googled wordle, clicked on the link and am able to play. so there's a plus for you if you have a change of heart and want to cancel.

there is also the archive.is
and that will archive any paywall article you want to read

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I cancelled my NYT subscription back in 2016

The NYT has become a source of TFG/Putin propaganda

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[Cha]

19. Have I mentioned the NYT is FUCKING STUPID?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. I canceled my Disney+ subscription.

They wanted to raise it by $40 for the year.

[question everything]

7. I do not. I support journalism of all opinions including the ones that I disagree

We all mock the ones who get their information only from Fox, or YouTube (YouTube?) so I think that DUers should make an extra effort to be exposed to all sources, even if posting them here violates the rules.

But individually we should.

[spooky3]

16. There must be acceptance of facts as a starting point. If

People have different points of view on what those facts mean, or they have different opinions based on differing values, it can be valuable to read those. But where there is substantial distortion of facts, or an unjustified weighting of some facts, that is another matter. And that’s what I have seen too often from the NYT. I will keep my WaPo subscription and read The Guardian and other sources. But it is time for the NYT to do a very serious reckoning.

[malaise]

26. THIS

Rec

[dalton99a]

8. The New York Times: All the Bothsiderism That's Fit to Print.

[Cha]

9. I cancelled mine in 2003.. Good Going

Spooky!

About this time of year.

[spooky3]

18. Thanks, Cha!

[chowder66]

11. I cancelled mine yesterday. I'm subscribing

To the L. A. Times instead. It’s my local paper.
I know the NYT has very good articles but I can’t take the bullshit they keep putting out. It’s one thing to have a different point of view but it’s an entirely different thing to treat both sides as the same when the facts are there for everyone to see. If they ever straighten that out I will consider renewing.

[BadgerMom]

13. I cancelled yesterday for the same reason.

I’ll miss games, cooking and many news items. But I feel as small a gesture as this is, I had to do something for my own peace of mind.

As far as reading only progressive sources, I feel no guilt. I read and support the Guardian and ProPublica because I think they are great exemplars of responsible journalism, unlike much of the Times’ bothsiderism. I don’t use my money to support a source with which I frequently disagree.

[TeamProg]

14. I pay for D. U. , Guardian and WaPo. Those are my recommendations. nt

[spooky3]

17. Ditto nt

[bsiebs]

15. I cancelled my 20 year subscription yesterday....

[JI7]

20. They want Trump to win and then they are hoping to increase sales to liberals

by being critical of Trump. BUt even then they wont give full details as they want to save it for their books later.

[LT Barclay]

21. Since I'm from Missouri, I always felt like the NYT had a "flyover state" attitude toward the midwest which I found

smug and intolerable.
St. Louis Post Dispatch and Globe Democrat used to be great papers and I never saw any need to look at the NYT.

So personally, I'd love to see it fail.

[aggiesal]

22. Posted this earlier today, apparently about the same article. Checkout the responses. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218673252

[spooky3]

23. Thanks. There were FOUR opinion pieces on Biden's age, etc., today.

And this is the straw that broke the camel’s back. There have been multiple problems over time.

[HAB911]

24. Canceled mine yesterday too

[pwb]

25. You canceled over Opinion pages?

All newspapers have opinion pages. Hell that is all cable news is Opinion.

[spooky3]

27. If you view my other posts in this thread you'll see more

Detail on my (and others’) decision. Go to the opinion page and see the biased presentation of multiple articles, and you’ll ask yourself why the Times didn’t insist on higher quality pieces, and then, “why am I paying to read this s&@t, again?”

The Times has had long standing problems of this type, in its reporting and editorializing. They are so fearful of criticism from the right when they tell the truth, that they bend over backwards to appear “fair and balanced.”

[JohnSJ]

28. I cancelled years ago after their WMDs lie, Hillary's email lie, and blaming Obama's "Hubris" for

the republican rejection of global warming.

From my perspective, I doubt that will make a change toward journalistic integrity at the NYTimes.

I believe they have made a conscious decision, like much of the MSM to move toward "bothsiderisms", instead of actually reporting news and facts. That alone accounts for a right wing shift.

This all started when bernard goldberg pushed his "liberal media" bullshit in his book Bias, which was embraced by fox, while others in the MSM moved toward reporting both sides do it when covering their stories.

Ironically, there is very little evidence of a "liberal media" today, and in fact there is a lot of evidence of a right wing media and bias. When 90% of the airwaves are dominated by conservative viewpoints, it should be no surprise we are where we are today.

It is all about money, and that is where they believe the money is, not with reporting the news.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/talk-radio-by-the-numbers/

[Ponietz]

29. Cancelled this morning

[SlimJimmy]

30. I cancelled my subscription years ago, when they started to go downhill with their right wing opinions.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. The NYT is really working hard to re-elect TFG

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