I’ve also found that The NY Times is getting worse lately, not so much in leaning left or right but just in terms of the focus. Like their coverage of campus politics is so fucking tedious. I don’t give a rat’s ass about what some sophomore at U Penn thinks about global affairs. There also seems to be more access journalism and beat sweeteners. Maybe early in an election campaign is the time for that stuff but it’s still useless bullshit.

It’s closer to enshittification than something where the staff writers suddenly got worse. They still have good writers. It seems more like the editors got worse at assignments rather than the rank and file screwing up their reports.