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Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have they fallen that much? Or am I confusing them? Because I remember they were pretty well established and did comparatively good investigations?

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They were “the paper of record” but they’ve fallen a long ways in the digital era. They were always slightly left and pro corporate, but as they transitioned to online they dropped in quality big time. They purposely make the line between editorial and news far more vague and pump out a ton of articles that are basically propaganda.

    They do still occasionally do a good thing every now and then. They developed some impressive ways to display articles alongside pictures in a way that was satisfying on a website and not just like print. They also do occasionally write a decent article or have a deep dive into a topic that does its due diligence, but it’s becoming more rare.

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  • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They probably still do a lot of those, but recently they’ve been using opinion writers to create outrage bait with writings they should know better than to print.

    In the last few years they have been willing to post a large amount of transphobic nonsense. To the point where early in the year almost 1000 current or former contributors signed an open letter complaining about the issue (and made a callback to the paper doing roughly the same thing with gay and lesbian people in the 60s through 80s)

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  • Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I’m from the UK and when they report on anything to do with us it is almost always completely wrong. Like they’ve never even visited the country.

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    • force@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      guess it ain’t called the london times for a reason

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      • Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you’re going to report on another country, some basic knowledge of that country would be useful though, surely.

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