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Chris Rey's avatar

I appreciate your journalism, and value your deeply researched and reasoned decision to abandon The New York Times. I quit subscription to that paper, and the Washington Post, earlier this year. For me, it wasn’t as cerebral a decision. It was my recurrent nausea and vomiting in response to their kid glove treatment of all the wrong people.

Now, The Times crawls back

with a new pitch every day… today it started with, “Sale starts now. Discover something new with our best offer.”

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Lily Pond's avatar

Thank you for your clear-eyed analysis. I was debating if I should unsubcribe from NYT just a few days ago, when they told me my credit card didn't work. I updated the card, and then I read their fluff piece on Ballerna Farm, which did not mention anything about her connection with the right wing agenda nor pinpoint her being a poster child of the trad wife movement that models female submission and role as a babymaking machine. The piece ran in the Food section and totally bypassed the crucial social issues that cannot be separated from her, her marriage and business. It read like an infomercial. After reading it and now your essay, I've decided to pull the plug.

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