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Washington Post cartoon team skewers paper’s decision not to make endorsement
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I'm cancelling too but I'm not convinced on NYT or The guardian yet.
NYT strikes me as horribly inept at technology. Guardian is foreign (granted: UK is barely foreign lol but foreign anyway). I'd like to support an American paper if at all possible.
Guardian is good material though. It's a top contender for now but I'm still looking for American papers. Surely something in this big country is worth supporting?
I mean, maybe I just support aftermath.site (aka: Kotaku before they quit/were replaced with the new writers). Video game news + politics is kinda what I'm interested in, but Aftermath.site (and Kotaku of old) didn't even pretend to be neutral or facts based.
I guess the modern Internet means that I need to pick and choose a-la-carte.
I lost respect for the NYT after their How Hamas weaponized sexual violence story turned out to be a much of hearsay featuring a writer who liked a post calling Palestinians human animals
Not just hearsay, written by an ex IDF soldier without any journalistic experience.
Nobody should support NYT financially. It is a disservice to journalism.
I'm fine with right wingers in my media honestly. I need to see their arguments anyway. I don't want to be blind to what the far right is talking about.
But with that being said, the NYT has a lot of questionable stories. Beyond just right wing trash that I honestly am cool with.
You may be interested in The Righting then. It's an aggregate for centrists/leftists to read what the right wing is writing. The creator often has short columns as well.
This has always been "best practice". I want to support one big outlet that has the muscle to put pressure on an administration, but that doesn't mean that they become my only source of news. At the moment I tip Guardian whenever I read an article that I feel went the extra mile. I need to figure out how to tip Al Jazeera too because they have been amazing for years. No outlet is perfect and many sins I can forgive. Bending to the will of a billionaire is not one of those sins.