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Relieved to see who you put on the C-tier. They belong there.

Digital product not the TV channel. Same for CNN.

Only problem that I have is with the WSJ, yes their business stuff is mostly ok, but it's such a polluted channel that I have no time for them any more. NYT's business/economic coverage is ok, thin, subject to golly gee-ing pr handouts, uneven.

Bloomberg does great public health reporting.

I've been insanely horribly misquoted by one of their reporters, egregiously bad work. But I give most of their reportage the benefit of the doubt.

From a book review perspective I’m putting the FT in S-tier though

NY Times in the C-tier of mediocrity where it belongs. 🫡

Incentives in finding and evaluating information. Money is a subject where our usual desire to hear what we want might be subordinate to our desire to hear what is true. Not always, but far more often than when wallowing in our biases has less immediate and personal effect.

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I've had to explain to lots of people the last few years that finance is weirdly open about how much trump sucks and how talking about exactly why trump/maga sucks is critical for actually beating the street.

As someone put it, Capitalists will lie to you, but they don't lie to themselves.

All politics is local All news is financial news

(Which is not shade thrown at the NYT, I do not share Bluesky’s broadly negative opinion of the Times. But certain other new orgs…)

"The money people are very concerned with getting accurate reporting." Yes. I keep on trying to explain this to my normie friends.

Also strikes me as the area of news that has the best and most frequent built in objective checks on the news reporting that allow reporters to evaluate their sources and methods and readers to evaluate the news. Monthly and quarterly data releases vs elections every 2 or 4 years in politics

In what world?

What about Axios? ROFL

$40/month for what is effectively a one-stop-shop for domestic and global news is a pretty good deal tbh.

these ratings so subjective I'm a big BBG consumer but at times, like NYT has a bias, and it's often a 'NYC/coastal' bias, not always political. And NPR, MSNBC over NYT/ CBS?? 🙃NPR is very biased ( as a 30 + yr NPR person) & MSNBC is'Fox of left'. add 2c: you want BBC for global news

They should be B or C, it’s debatable. This was very space constrained.

BBC quality wise has declined a lot in 10 years or so. Sadly.

Agree to disagree. Though I think their coverage of things like the Ukraine War, the Ebola outbreak in Africa or the fighting in Somalia is better than most US outlets, though lags behind the BBC (this is their bread and butter)

I dropped the NY Times two years ago because of their biases and faults, but those weaknesses are very different than the WaPo's sins. They are blinded by hubris rather than hollowed out by parasites.