Additionally, it seems like in the past, they were a much more substantial operation with major investigational journalism. That's just my personal impression with nothing to back it up but it sure seems that way to me.
NYT reminds me of my first media "hate": Time Magazine. So self-focused it's like "this isn't about me or my life", like when Time kept going on about "We're 50!" and it was all about upper middle class boomers, and we were all at Woodstock and we were all (or had close friends) at the Vietnam protests.
I've been using Google News for years, and have tailored the sources they show me stories from. I wish I could remove the Entertainment and Sports sections entirely, because I have no interest in them, but they removed that option in one of the updates. I do like dark mode, which I use whenever sites allow it. I have two large monitors and white backgrounds is like staring at floodlights.
I kind of work around issues like that by mentally making clear distinctions between things I subscribe to as a statement, and things I subscribe to for information. Like, my local newspaper. I'm lucky, my local newspaper is generally pretty decent, they have a bunch of pulitzers. They also have a fairly conservative editorial bent. I'll stay subscribed to that paper forever, though, no matter what stance they take, because nobody else is going to tell me what my town council is up to this week. I subscribe to the Wall St Journal for their information. Of course, they are going to advocate for everything I hate. They're the paper of record for the American aristocratic voice, but I still need their information.
From the comments:
We could make a whole new topic thread on bad takes from the NY Times. Here is an article from two experienced NY Times corespondents who say that the Jan 6 commission is dangerously aggressive and falls short of the standards set by the Congress' Benghazi Investigation (seriously):
reason.com
Careful, there's some very sensitive nationalist Canadians around here who get all huffy when they see people bring up the convoy in Ottowa. One more example of what they don't like... they probably wouldn't like us talking about how we have video of the truckers in Ottowa taping the doors shut on an apartment building, and trying to burn it down, to kill as many residents as they could. Remember, they are attempting mass murder, not terrorism, because white people can't be terrorists. Only brown people get droned for this kind of thing. White people get counseling.
www.rawstory.com
Being Canadian, I am unaware of any current lockdowns in the country. Granted, it may depend on what is viewed as a lockdown - I personally interpret that term to mean complete restriction, curfews, no school or work, no public group activities, etc. Some folks see it as a few days self-isolation after travel or where they've been exposed to an active case. We have had periodic 50% restaurant and venue reductions, temporary closures of gyms and large arena events and such in various parts of the country when cases rose alarmingly and hospitals were at breaking point.
Not really. The closest to it here was the province half-ass restricted us to our provincial health regions. (Administrative districts for the local area, varying land areas, groupings of about a million people.) Remote communities with no significant medical presence full time have been unwelcoming to dipshits from out of town.
