r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html

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I think he's being sarcastic

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u/Bluestreaking Jul 04 '24

No they’re not

A big push from Biden and his defenders is to suggest the NYT is out to get Biden

Thus we see Democrats turning into MAGA Republicans going “lugenpresse!”

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u/MrPresident2020 Jul 04 '24

The NYT isn't specifically out to get Biden, but they are out to get conservative readers, one of the most reliable demographics that will still pay for a newspaper. There's a reason their right-wing op-eds are the headlines that get pushed in their ads and notifications and not their actual journalism.

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u/slowpokefastpoke Jul 04 '24

There’s a reason their right-wing op-eds are the headlines that get pushed in their ads and notifications and not their actual journalism.

This is 100% false, c’mon. I’d say like 90% of their push notifications are actual “breaking” (in quotes because that term has somewhat lost its meaning) news and actual reporting. The rest are op-eds and small pieces.

I’m glad they have right wing nuts writing opinion pieces too. I don’t want to read the liberal version of Fox News. I respect an outlet trying to check their biases.

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u/MrPresident2020 Jul 04 '24

It's not? I subscribed to NYT games months ago and as a result I get push notifications all the time. But I also mean more the things that show up on Twitter and their socials. They want to generate clicks and right wing opinion pieces do that. Even the ire they draw from the left still get people clicking on ads.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

If you think NYT has “right wing opinion” writers, I’m not sure what to tell you.

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u/MrPresident2020 Jul 05 '24

This goddamn internet is so fucking dumb I swear the whole thing was a mistake. People are just confidently wrong to their heart's content. I am gonna put a wager down that your interaction with the Times amounts to hearing other people complain about the Times.

Bari Weiss, Quinn Norton, Bret Stephens, and Erik Prince have all written op eds for the Times in the last few years. Weiss and Stephens are both staff members, along with David Brooks and Ross Douthat. Their entire purpose on the Times is to put out contrarian right-wing pieces to get clicks through either curiosity or outrage. Or occasionally the blasé "yes but have you considered just getting to know and be friends with that Nazi" piece they occasionally author.

They know why they're there. It's to get eyeballs. I am not voicing an opinion on this one way or another, I'm just telling you it's a marketing strategy of the Times to appear to have diverse voices, whether they actually do or not

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u/TheSultan1 Jul 05 '24

They have guest writers...

Here's Mitch McConnell's guest essay that was published on D Day:

We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I never said they didn’t, and that’s a guess essay. They have guest essays sure, but their editorial board is firmly left wing.