Ruben Bolling 🪲Jan 23, 2023
Both parties have held the debt ceiling hostage as a political tool. For example, in 2011, the Republicans did it. But in 2013, the Republicans did it. On the other hand, this year it is the Republicans who are doing it.
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47
@rubenbolling I long ago stopped clicking on #NYTimes links and I encourage others to join me in this.
Heck, I loved #ThisAmericanLife and #SerialPodcast but when they inked a deal with the Times I stopped listening to both.
The Times does some good journalism, but it seems patently obvious to me that the bad outweighs the good, and anything really important they report gets reported elsewhere.
Clicks = ad revenue for them. Stop clicking.
Jan 23, 2023 at 3:58pmWeb
Show threadPrinceOfDenmarkJan 23, 2023

@jik If you don’t want to support #NewYorkTimes in any way but still want to support journalism as a way to both be informed and ensure there is a spotlight on the powerful, what alternative do you recommend? #WashingtonPost also has lazy/bad takes sometimes, #LATimes doesn’t go as deep into national politics, my hometown newspaper is kinda focused on clickbait takes, and let’s face it the #fediverese is an easy place launch unverified crap.

#NYTimes ain’t great, but who else?

Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Jan 23, 2023
@PrinceOfDenmark I subscribe to #WashingtonPost. The right-wing dreck they publish on their op-ed page pisses me off, but aside from that I believe they're leaps and bounds better than #NYTimes.
Also consider supporting independent news sources like @ProPublica, @themarkup, and Capital B News. If you watch what comes across your timeline you'll also see quite a few other orgs doing important and excellent reporting.
Show threadPrinceOfDenmarkJan 23, 2023
@jik @ProPublica @themarkup Thanks for the perspective!
 I do donate monthly to ProPublica and subscribe to WaPo, and also to NYT. Stupid amount of monthly expense but I want to support journalism with a broad reach - and to read stuff with a chance of getting fact-checked. Will check out Capital B.
Show threadGurtbeef RobeJan 23, 2023
@PrinceOfDenmark @jik WaPo’s biggest problem is the editorial page. Generally stays there for stupid conservative takes. NYT used to just be the editorial page but now it’s creeping over into their actual news. LA times is right wing