AmericanThinker: Amidst reports of further massive layoffs of the people who write and edit its news content (109 copy editors gone so far this year), the paper seems to have begun outsourcing production of “news” articles to special interest groups.
Reader Jonathan P. Kahn noticed exactly this process underway yesterday and wrote us:
Yesterday, readers got a preview of the outsourcing is the news content
Page 20 (today’s Sunday NY Times main news section – NY edition): Walks and talks like a news story with a presumed reporter, dateline and all, unless reader looks carefully; it’s a planted piece by Kaiser Family Foundation.
Gray Lady turning yellow?
Outsourcing fake news, LOL.
The journalistic equivalent to an early morning Infomercial, otherwise known as Paid Programming! Anybody want a ShamWow?
You ain’t seen nuthin yet! Just wait ’till Joe Isuzu meets the Winnebago Man on page 3! “If I’m lying, may lightning hit my mother.”
“Good luck Mom!”
It’s been true for a long time that the best way to get your own slant published in a newspaper (NYT included) or aired on a teevee news show is to write it or record it in the target’s style and send it in. It’s a bidniss decision on their part to get content that doesn’t cost them much or anything at all.
BTW, Congress works the same way with bills. Far more bills are written by lobbyists than legislators.
Google Imprimis May/June Michael Goodwin/ The Demise of Journalism.
Can’t say as I have ever bought a NYT let alone read one – yet why do I feel their influence in my country’s politics?
Let them become the QVC of Television I say.
Outsourcing the news to left-wing special interest groups will be a seamless transition that will make no perceptible difference in the content of that rag.
They’re going broke paying their lackey reporters, so they lay them off. They fill the void by allowing their hard-Left “sources” to now report the “news”.
What this means to me is that their articles will take on an even more biased slant, further hastening their own demise.
Buh-bye, NYT! You won’t be missed.
No one has to buy a New York Times. Just go to any college campus. They got stacks of ’em they drop off for free!
It’s how they indoctrinate!
Carlos Slim the purveyor of Obama Phones and the largest telecom guy in Mexico owns about 17% of NYT stock (as of 2015) and I guess the question is when Punch decides to sell out will it be Carlos who gets the “special voting stock” that allows him to control the paper. Hmmm, I wonder what spanish is for “The Paper of Record”.
Sir Fur, mebbe you can get a contract with them for news articles? 🙂
Let Carlos Slim pay the NY Times in Pesos.
The heroic plight of Macedonian Content Farmers.
A newapaper thats indispensable to pet bird owners.
NYT, read by every parakeet and 2 week old puppy in the boroughs.