{"id":122096,"date":"2021-02-09T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122096"},"modified":"2021-02-09T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:27:27","slug":"tech-community-turns-against-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-community-turns-against-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Community Turns Against the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftech-community-turns-against-the-new-york-times%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYTimes.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new app offers the ability to block <em>New York Times<\/em> reporters on Twitter en masse, escalating the feud between the tech community and the Paper of Record.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blocknyt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlockNYT<\/a> project rolled out Monday morning anonymously <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blocknyt\/status\/1358807740856979459?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Twitter<\/a>, promising the ability to &#8220;block 800 NYT reporters for the low price of $0.&#8221; It circulated rapidly among West Coast tech workers, who in recent years have grown to distrust the reporters who cover tech companies and online culture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Media<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/tech-community-turns-against-the-times\/\"><strong>Tech Community Turns Against the New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/inside-the-grey-ladys-meltdown-over-donald-mcneils-resignation\/\"><strong>New York Times Meltdown Plays Out in Private Facebook Group<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/zucker-trump-cnn\/\"><strong>Journalists Mourn as CNN Exec Who Fueled Trump&#8217;s Rise Announces Plans to Leave Network<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reporters at the <em>Times<\/em> have developed an increasingly adversarial relationship with major tech figures. Angel investor Balaji Srinivasan has clashed repeatedly online with Taylor Lorenz, a tech reporter at the <em>Times<\/em>. Lorenz drew fire for claiming on February 6 that investor and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, cofounder of venture capital firm a16z, had used the word &#8220;retard&#8221; in the voice-chat app Clubhouse. Multiple participants in the chat room denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>The glossy &#8220;BlockNYT&#8221;&nbsp;website mimics the <em>Times<\/em>\u2018s front page. But rather than real news headlines, the page features 21<em>&nbsp;Times<\/em> scandals, ranging from Walter Duranty&#8217;s whitewashing the Soviet famine in 1933 to the recent news that a podcast on ISIS got key facts wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, the anonymous figure behind the app said, &#8220;The <em>New York Times<\/em> won a Pulitzer Prize for helping starve five million people to death. That was almost ninety years ago. Their star reporters lied on Twitter. That was yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, a <em>Times<\/em> journalist reportedly planned to doxx\u2014or publicly identify\u2014the anonymous figure behind &#8220;SlateStarCodex,&#8221; a popular blog in the tech community. The blogger, who claimed anonymity was vital for his safety and livelihood, deleted all posts on the blog, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/still-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widespread<\/a> condemnation of the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Blocklists have gained popularity in recent years as a tool for managing one&#8217;s experience online. Block Party, a popular blocklist app, bills itself as a &#8220;service for tackling online harassment.&#8221; In 2015, Twitter rolled out tools to make and share blocklists, but quickly removed the functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Internet theorist L.M. Sacasas pointed out that BlockNYT also functions as a symbol of in-group identity: &#8220;The average user of an app like this isn&#8217;t really interested in blocking <em>New York Times<\/em> reporters so much as they are interested in being perceived as the sort of people who block <em>New York Times<\/em> reporters.&#8221; But he also noted that in an era of &#8220;information superabundance,&#8221; comprehensively blocking a specific outlet may not meaningfully decrease the amount of news the user receives.<\/p>\n<p>That superabundance of information may be driving competition between the <em>Times<\/em> and tech. A <em>Times&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/23\/business\/media\/substack-newsletters-journalists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> over the summer documented the flood of journalists moving from legacy media organizations to Substack, an email newsletter platform that allows writers to monetize their writing directly. In a January 25 podcast, <em>Times<\/em> opinion writer Kara Swisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/25\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-chris-best.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> that Donald Trump could reach a mass audience through Substack. The newsletter platform is backed by several major venture-capital firms, including a16z.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new app offers the ability to block New York Times reporters on Twitter en masse, escalating the feud between the tech community and the Paper of Record. 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