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user-inactivated  ·  3922 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How We Read a NYTimes Story on Drone Strikes in Yemen

This is very, very interesting food for thought. However, a lot of their argument boils down to "needs more nuance" -- because drone strikes are an extremely nuanced subject, definitely -- but "needs more nuance" is, to the NYT, a synonym for "goodbye pageviews."

Anyway, this is an extremely refreshing, unbiased article. Excellent post.





smoorman1024  ·  3921 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Even though I try my best to keep up with these sorts of foreign affairs I like how the analysis ties together things I may have read but forgot, like mentioning the leaked cable between Petraeus and the Yemeni President.