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DAILY_NAIL

                                        June 29, 2021

The New York Times has for quite some time used a
mailing list to send out daily news summaries...

For a long time this was a very simple listing
of some headlines with a brief description.
I liked skimming through this, playing the
"I bet you can't make me click" game.

It was a good, quick way to pick up a glimpse
into the high-end of the MSM before (hopefully)
doing something more useful.


They abruptly dropped that and switched to a
more verbose write-up which managed to say
much less with a lot more exposition.  Even      The last half of it was
when talking about interesting subjects they     inane fluffy bunny
managed to be profoundly boring about it...      bullshit like recipies
I quickly gave up on reading it.                 and games and
                                                 "entertainment news".
                                                  
About a year ago, they suddenly dropped             NEWSPOP  
that and replaced it with a write-up by
David Leonhardt (a familiar news by-line,
I thought, though maybe more of a columnist).

There's no comparison between the two:
suddenly, we've got a direct, intelligent
write-up of some important issues,
with some brief links to other stories,
and the fluffy bunny nonsense at the          But then I've often got some
bottom is kept to a minimum.                  problems with what Leonhardt
                                              says:

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                                            I worry that Leonhardt-- and the
                                            Times in general-- may be
                                            dangerous: just when you start
                                            taking them seriously you get
                                            some yellow cake in your face.





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