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Outsourcing the New York Times news

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.

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14 Comments on Outsourcing the New York Times news

  1. 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!”

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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”.

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