Here’s the closest thing to your argument in this post that I’d endorse:
Ukraine did not allow its men to leave.
NYT did not mention this fact as often as a “fully unbiased” paper would have, and in fact often used wordings that were deliberately deceptive in that they’d cause a reader to assume that men were staying behind voluntarily.
Therefore NYT is not a fully unbiased paper.
The part I disagree with: I think this is drastically blown out of proportion (e.g. that this represents “extreme subversions of democracy”). Yes NYT (et al) is biased, but
I think this has been true for much longer than just the Ukraine war
I think that yes all this is bad, but democracy is managing to putter along anyway
Which means that in my eyes, the issue with your post is precisely the degree to which it is exaggerating the problem. Which is why I (and perhaps other commenters) focused our comments on your exaggerations, such as the “routinely and brazenly lied” title. So these comments seem quite sane to me; I think you’re drawing entirely the wrong lesson from all this if you think the issue is that you drew the wrong people here with your tagging choices (you’d have drawn me no matter what with your big-if-true title), or didn’t post large enough excerpts from the articles. But if you plan to firm up the “implications for geopolitics and the survival of democracy”, I look forward to reading that.
Here’s the closest thing to your argument in this post that I’d endorse:
Ukraine did not allow its men to leave.
NYT did not mention this fact as often as a “fully unbiased” paper would have, and in fact often used wordings that were deliberately deceptive in that they’d cause a reader to assume that men were staying behind voluntarily.
Therefore NYT is not a fully unbiased paper.
The part I disagree with: I think this is drastically blown out of proportion (e.g. that this represents “extreme subversions of democracy”). Yes NYT (et al) is biased, but
I think this has been true for much longer than just the Ukraine war
I think there are much stronger pieces of evidence one could use to demonstrate it than this stuff about the Ukraine war (e.g. https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192)
I think that yes all this is bad, but democracy is managing to putter along anyway
Which means that in my eyes, the issue with your post is precisely the degree to which it is exaggerating the problem. Which is why I (and perhaps other commenters) focused our comments on your exaggerations, such as the “routinely and brazenly lied” title. So these comments seem quite sane to me; I think you’re drawing entirely the wrong lesson from all this if you think the issue is that you drew the wrong people here with your tagging choices (you’d have drawn me no matter what with your big-if-true title), or didn’t post large enough excerpts from the articles. But if you plan to firm up the “implications for geopolitics and the survival of democracy”, I look forward to reading that.