I’ve been enjoying the NYT’s coverage of the US elections. They’ve lost nearly all pretence of impartiality and are leaning into their anti-Trump stance. Part of me thinks it’s a bad precedent, but given the specific circumstances it’s a refreshing break from the BBC style “balance” that presents abhorrent ideas with no factual basis on the same level as established and developing science and history. That nonsense is what led us to post-truthism in the first place.
I’ve been enjoying the NYT’s coverage of the US elections. They’ve lost nearly all pretence of impartiality and are leaning into their anti-Trump stance. Part of me thinks it’s a bad precedent, but given the specific circumstances it’s a refreshing break from the BBC style “balance” that presents abhorrent ideas with no factual basis on the same level as established and developing science and history. That nonsense is what led us to post-truthism in the first place.