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0 pointsjustin663y ago0 comments

> The person who took that autocratic decision was AG Sulzberger,

What evidence is there of this?

Asking because it's not traditionally the case that the NYT editorial staff needs to be interfered with by ownership in order to make terrible decisions.

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nindalf3y ago

This wasn’t instructions to the editorial staff, it was to the regular reporters. This is alleged by reporters who heard of it second hand.

I wish I could link you to the investigative exposé about this decision published by the NYT, but they don’t look inward. And no other paper looked at them either. Instead they sycophantically copied the same direction to investigate tech.

justin66OP3y ago

> they don’t look inward

On that point we can agree.

fmajid3y ago

Not so at all. The Judy Miller warmongering fiasco was directly attributable to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (A.G. Sulzberger's dad), whose favorite she was for whatever reason.

msteffen3y ago

Matt Yglesias claimed it in a meme: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1588193914640...

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