The New York Times offers international journalism, but not just. The New York Times is the primary source of in-depth, investigative domestic journalism as well. 1/

Do you think American audiences can replace The New York Times with BBC and Al Jazeera? Both of which have their own, rather terrible biases. Both of which also are funded in order to launder those biases to their audiences. 2/

A very discriminating news consumer can follow all of these interest-laundering organizations and hope that, in doing so, they can tease out the common journalistic signal and wash away the insidious bias. We can't, but we can do our best and it's the best we can do. 3/

But note this doesn't imply boycotting The New York Times. It implies subscribing to it, despite its shittiness, and subscribing to the others too, despite theirs, in order to help support the diverse ecosystem of shit from which some approximation of truth might be fertilized. /fin

I support, qua BBC, public finance of media, but unlike BBC in UK, public finance of a diverse panoply of sources. Consumers won't finance journalism, something else must, I'd rather a diverse range of public sources than (inevitably along with) plutocrats drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...