I used to read them every day, for a couple of decades on and off, half the time. They were better before. I quit forever in 2018 because of Israel, it sounds petty, I knew they were biased, but I’ve always been a commenter on articles back when they all had their own comments. I made some mild criticisms of Israel that were true, really held back, I only implied they were nazis, ghettos, etc.

Anyway, when I went back to check, none of them went through. I tried a bunch of other ones, none of the Israel ones went through. Meaning they were classifying mild criticisms of forcing others into ghettos and levying collective punishments against them from a position of absolute military superiority as anti salmonish or whatever nonsense they call it.

Idk why but it pissed me off a lot. I figured I’d get over it and resubscribe, but I’ve just gotten angrier. Someone got me a guest subscription this year, and I can hardly read it, can’t stomach a single editorial or opinion piece, which I used to read all of them, I don’t respect their opinions.

But they are less brave. They didn’t break a single story, before, despite being the textbook case of fairness bias and covering for Israel and other things, they still broke a lot of stories. They ran a series of articles about fracking poisoning swaths of land while these oil companies lied about it and paid off their politicians, even as other parts of the paper might run oil industry fluff pieces, and full page ads from oil companies lying. They broke warrantless wiretapping, covered snowden, they had some courage.

That courage is all but spent now. I seriously think this Israel thing has broken their brains, broken their will, gave them an identity crisis, their identification with the jewish identity that Israel has crafted, of them under attack, the victims, fighting for survival against shadowy forces has triumphed their identity as the fourth estate. They are standing side by side with those that forced 5 million people into ghettos in the middle east, convinced they are the victims, put upon, attacked on all sides. They have to stick together, or else, let me check notes, george soros? That doesn’t sound right, well too late that’s what they are going with. Dumb as it sounds when you say it out loud.

Israel gave them an identity crisis and they identify with the forces of illiberality now, and are too cravenly afraid of the government, and to their credit it should be mentioned since it’s clear the democrats won’t stop them and the republicans will win and put a fix in, resistance is futile. But it’s only futile because of the NYTimes and their ilk making sure doomed to fail candidates run as opposition to the democratic party, in status quo campaigns, so that argument doesn’t hold water very far if your can see past your hand. This is all their fault in a way, we knew what the republicans were, and we knew what the israelis were. We knew that the repulicans were adopting the tactic of the israelis to bring home here, to ghettoize our own cities, and they still refused to embark on popular reform that would stop them. They did all they could to prevent it.

So long winded and all, but I am too angry at them to even read them much, which is no big loss because it’s garbage now, I’ve seen more scoops linked from guardian pieces than on the times this year and last.