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NYT: Pro-Palestinian activists vandalise Trump’s Turnberry golf course
The Palestine Action group spray painted the clubhouse and gates and dug up the lawns, in protest over the US president’s plans for Gaza
Archived non-paywall
https://archive.is/waEZK
@gleick I can only warmly recommend writing directly to the NYT again and again! I sent them a long email explaining what I understand by quality journalism (I'm a journalist myself) - at the same time as cancelling my subscription.
The more people protest directly, the more it will be heard. (And yes, falling subscriptions are seen).
While on the subject, considering #OpenAI's is trained on #NYT's data (among others), NYT using OpenAI’s models to generate new content seems to be fundamentally flowed as much as investigative journalism is concerned. It might explain why it was so difficult for them to acknowledge that #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza (funded by the US). It's fitting that their internal #AI tool is named "echo". It is exactly that I guess.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/16/2025/new-york-times-goes-all-in-on-internal-ai-tools
If the #NYT reported on the Civil War:
‘Confederate Troops Surrender at Fort Donelson But Vow To Fight On Against the Northern Aggressors to Preserve Their Way of Life.’
Nazis are not Conservatives. You cannot appease Nazis, nor report what Nazis want to read without tanking truth and journalism. You’re welcome, AG Sulzberger.
Everyone should read this summary of current presidential lawlessness. Even if you hate the #NYT
Charlie Savage knows his stuff & even the headline writer gets the job done today.
GIFT article:
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/trump-federal-law-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk4.28af.69HwaADty8-4
The abjection of the #NYT gets its reward: being booted out of its workspace in the Pentagon in favor of the #NYPost.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/pentagon-media-rotation
The #Trump admin notified 4 major #news orgs that they would have to give up their dedicated office space at the #Pentagon.
A Dept of #Defense spox said that The #NYT, #NBC News, #NPR & #Politico had to vacate their offices by Feb 14.
Murdoch’s #NewYorkPost will replace The NYT; #FarRight cable channel #OAN will be swapped in for #NBC News; #Breitbart News will be a radio outlet instead of NPR; & the news outlet #HuffPost, owned by BuzzFeed, will switch w/ Politico.
Some thoughts from an English professor who studied neurology at UCSF for a year (dangerous, I know!) on this #NYT piece on #Alzheimer's and research fraud. https://archive.ph/Aj93P#selection-1119.175-1123.207. First, I am very much looking forward to reading the book.
Second, a small one, the author should have mentioned Theo Baker as the "intrepid reporter" who was instrumental in breaking the Mark Tessier-Lavigne misconduct which led to his resignation as Stanford president. (more to follow)
Yesterday, there was an opinion piece in the #NYT about #Alzheimer's research and fraud. I tried to access it but was unable to. If someone would be willing to share the article, I would be very grateful.
Thank you.
A must-read from @jeffjarvis. There's even data: "U.S. ranks 36th worldwide in literacy. The lack of education in the United States, the attack by the fascist right on the institutions of education, and the ignorance of too much of the public is what made them vulnerable to the siren call of #fascism, #Fox, and extremist right propaganda."
I canceled my #NYT subscription a while back because the cost of the anti-nausea medicine required to read headlines like this (is the story as grotesque?) became prohibitive.
Googled Dealbook and found this:
DealBook is a financial news service reporting on mergers, acquisitions, venture capital and hedge funds produced by The New York Times. The new venture from The New York Times was created about deals and those who make and break them.
So it's a #NYT venture? So the #NYT is using an arm of itself as an authority? Trying to get my head around potential conflicts of interest. Paging Larry David.
Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’ (Guardian, 2025-01-08)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/08/new-york-times-ad-cancel-gaza-genocide
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“The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a #Quaker organization that advocates for peace, said on Monday the group cancelled a planned advertisement in the New York Times in response to the paper refusing to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide.”
“According to the #AFSC press release, when the group refused [to use ‘war’ instead of ‘genocide’], the New York Times responded with an email that read, in part: ‘Various international bodies, human rights organizations, and governments have differing views on the situation. In line with our commitment to factual accuracy and adherence to legal standards, we must ensure that all advertising content complies with these widely applied definitions.’”
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@a.gup.pe
#NYT #NameGenocideGenocide