Kevin M. Kruse: Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when they’re bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now

Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when they’re bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now

ah, yes bsky.app/profile/brun...

sulzberger has more in common with murdoch than most people realize

Where else could one possibly turn to learn the thoughts of Bill Maher or Steve Bannon?

A dumpster behind a chick-fil-a?

Hey now, let's not disparage a perfect useful dumpster like that.

Dumpsters at least serve a purpose. They are an excellent place to start a fire.

Yeah, but they specifically said a dumpster behind a Chick fil A. So its only purpose is collecting homophobic garbage. That’s pretty low.

So, a great place to find Maher's opinions.

Their coverage is a big nothing burger, or a little Sulzberger.

For a Monday morning, that's good word play.

NYT has turned into Fox News for people who can read. 😬

NYT subs can read?

Their years-long full embrace of transphobia really was just the tip of a very large iceberg wasn't it

Also, all the top stories on the mobile app are still some version of "Biden is a Corpse: Can He Even Survive until November? Here's Why He Sucks."

Are they ever going to learn a new trick?

I’ve never regretted canceling. Not once. “Oh but there’s good reporting there” - and I’m sure the bread used for the shit sandwich is artisanal.

Good one!

the now derelict and patriarchal phrase "I wish I had a daughter I could forbid you to marry" seems to come to mind in re the NY Times these days.

I have a daughter, but I wouldn't need to tell her that - last time a boy tried to take liberties she decked him, and I think she'd do the same to the NYT.

I cancelled a while ago and it seems like the Times made a commitment to remind me that I made the right choice on a near-daily basis.

I regret canceling my subscription because now I can't angrily cancel my subscription.

How do you keep up with what retirees in rural Ohio diners think?

Steve Bannon? reporting to federal prison today Steve Bannon? odd bodkins!

Every day after canceling a NYT subscription is a missed opportunity to cancel it again.

oh no i cancelled too whatever shall we do (sad sigh, munches donut contemplatively)

Clicked in this morning and the entire front page is "we want Trump" as they continue to write about Biden being "Weekend at Bernie's". They don't even try to hide it.

If you re-subscribe, you can unsubscribe again!

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Skipped the Maher, but Brooksie interviewing Bannon was quite something. You missed Bannon calling Trump a soft-hearted, people-pleasing, peacemaker. And Brooksie waying he "almost became a Marxist" after 2008.

Oh gosh why don’t I believe any of that?

Enjoy…? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/o...

Opinion | My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannonwww.nytimes.com On the eve of going to prison, populism’s grand strategist talks about what another Trump presidency would look like and the rise of MAGA-type movements around the world.

“Populism strategist” is a bit kinder of a title than he deserves but I guess “hate-filled lying sack of destructive invasive slugs” didn’t fit on the page.

Terrifying

I get complementary access through the library and I'm very tempted to try and cancel on their behalf.

Maher is the goddamn worst, but what's really sad is the stream of left-aligned people who appear on his site bc they're desperate for exposure

I haven't spent a dime on neither one of them. I'm good. I think NYT ended its own era that day!!!

The NYT is a player in the Election! reality show.

Cancelled today...it's just has gotten so ridiculous.

Can't even stay informed on the latest trends in kitten murdering

would you instead like a gift link to yesterday's WaPo article in which Steve Bannon expresses his fears that the Democrats will force Biden out (oh no!) which would be very very bad for Trump (really, 100%, the Democrat With No Name is who the Republicans fear most)?

Seeing those articles with a ‘Paywall Removed’ note and just passing right on by.

so weird how that keeps happening bsky.app/profile/brun...

sulzberger has more in common with murdoch than most people realize

If you need a gift article, just let me know

here's one, a gift from me www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/o...

Opinion | My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannonwww.nytimes.com On the eve of going to prison, populism’s grand strategist talks about what another Trump presidency would look like and the rise of MAGA-type movements around the world.

Ugh, no thank you.

Oh me too, me too! (Yes I also just cancelled a subscription that was a decade old) What a shame I can’t see an article about a Bannon interview. Because let’s give this kind of criminal an interview in the effing NYT.

😅

“The Failing New York Times”

Warning: the above post contains levels of sarcasm known to the State of California to be dangerous to children and animals under 12 (twelve) lbs in weight.

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