Article

2021-06-15 -Great Cultural Revolution

The Babylon Bee Scores a Major Victory Over The New York Times

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-15 01:12|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 To NY Slimes defense I think about 40% of the Bee’s headlines are true which is more than the 10% of NY Slimes headlines I think are true.

Posted by Airandee 2021-06-15 06:31|| 2021-06-15 06:31|| Front Page Top

#2 OK triple checked to see IF I was making another withdrawn from my already opened Feed the Rant-Kitty Bank. BUT there are dozens of MSM's carrying the article. So either Fred and Trailing Wife figured out how to plant fake news, or its legit.

OK, with that said given the revisionist reporting the NYT is well known for, removing or rewriting fake, misleading news articles is just normal article updating for them.

Question: Was NYT caving due to the obvious truth or driven more by declining revenue. Which means losing another slander suit, which would cost them double digit Millions and was unaffordable due to their bottom line.

Note: Avoiding the usual Google search burying techniques uncovers this: NY Times Ad Revenue Fell 26% Last Year, while Subscriptions Topped 7.5 Million. The New York Times' advertising revenue continued to drop in the fourth quarter of 2020, though the paper ended the year with 7.5 million subscriptions, according to the company's Q4 earnings report.Feb 4, 2021

Question: So somehow PAID readership is up, but Businesses are fleeing? So is the NYT using some type of misleading tactic like USA-2-Today has been using with its newly acquired collection of local papers to boost circulation appearances? Like Selling 6 month E-Subscriptions for $1.

Question:Say the numbers are true. Then why are businesses avoiding this subscription rich advertising cow?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-15 06:43|| 2021-06-15 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Paid readership? That's not how its calculated. They get credit for copies dumped at hotels, dormitories, and the like in the accounting process. It's like ballots in the 2020 election. They all have been gaming the process for decades cause ads are the revenue for sustaining their operation. Craiglist et al gutted their revenue for personal ads. Mandatory legal requirements to post notices keeps that section alive today. In the 'old' days, obits were free, today only those 'famous' enough to be of note get that. The rest often have to pay for their love one's obits.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-15 07:23|| 2021-06-15 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 same way the cable networks game the system. No one willingly watches CNN, but they have negotiated with airports to be played relentlessly. And no one would willingly pay for CNN, but you get to when you buy a cable 'bundle' of channels

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-06-15 08:04|| 2021-06-15 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll buy that this was a "positive event". But to declare this a "Major Victory" is just another example of why the wrong side is winning the culture war.

The left/totalitarian side of the battle rapes and pillages our institutions, traditions, and cultures with near impunity. They just successfully *stole* the election for the highest office in the land. THAT, my friends, is a "Major Victory".

THIS...? This is a "retraction" that will largely ignored.

If we want to get serious about the battle we're in, we'd better start setting the bar for "Major Victory" a little higher.

Posted by Crusader 2021-06-15 10:45|| 2021-06-15 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The NYSlimes doesn't seem to understand satire.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-06-15 14:05|| 2021-06-15 14:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The NYSlimes doesn't seem to understand satire.

They understand perfectly well that satire is a favorite weapon of "enemies of the People".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-15 14:11|| 2021-06-15 14:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Speaking of sausage... and media...

In a story that beggars belief,
Houston Press links to Mr. O'Keefe.
Extra! Streisand effect
In full cry, spittle-flecked,
From a meth-mouth of truth with no teef!

Posted by Uleamble Darling of the Veal Cutlets7516 2021-06-15 17:49|| 2021-06-15 17:49|| Front Page Top

23:51 Uleamble Darling of the Veal Cutlets7516
22:51 Dron66046
22:34 Dron66046
22:31 Uleamble Darling of the Veal Cutlets7516
22:22 trailing wife
21:52 Raj
21:52 Dron66046
21:46 Dron66046
21:36 DarthVader
21:14 SteveS
21:05 NoMoreBS
20:35 Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843
20:25 Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589
19:07 Besoeker
18:59 Frank G
18:51 swksvolFF
18:47 swksvolFF
18:41 Zhang Fei
18:39 Silentbrick
18:38 Besoeker
18:37 Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589
18:27 swksvolFF
18:26 rjschwarz
18:23 rjschwarz