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I dream about buying the nytimes and shutting it down. I’ve thought of this so many times. As a nice daydream.

In the same whimsical tone of the article.

I honestly feel like I share the emotion of the author. I could write for hours about it. There are many other news networks and papers but still, I feel something draws me back to the nytimes as the true spawn point for all that is wrong in the world. It’s this “grey lady” notion. The “paper of record”. It’s not like the others that are unabashedly biased and know that they are.

The times is like an emperor blessed with the divine right to rule over truth and culture. The tone of the writing. The tone of their podcasts. Even in attacking it you must pay your respects to it as Trump did. You must leave the room without turning your back on it.

It doesn’t just evoke the need to reform itself. It evokes such a strong sense of...it needs to be killed and die.




why so negative? the times is getting worse. all written discourse is getting worse.

why not wish for someone to do better instead of taking a flamethrower to the dregs?




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