The actual solution is the Swish journalist, who you yourself pay directly for his stories.

Why wouldn't they use social media to do the same? Why trust influencers but not professional media?

And then, where do you get information?

Even Chomsky has said that you could read the NYT from back to front to partially counteract the bias toward cozying up to power. (I.e., the stories that show bias in favor of U.S. govt are the ones at the front that are most prominently placed.)

Toplevel OP, however, is saying some things that are more radical and less studious:

* "NYT aligns itself with power at every opportunity." Because the statement is totalizing it is trivially disproved. Off the top of my head-- see the "Pentagon Pundits" story by David Barstow[1]. It won a Pulitzer and was published while Bush was still president. It was also a front-page story IIRC.

* "never ran the story to protect GW's chances at reelection." IIRC Glenn Greenwald was the most vocal/detailed critic of Keller's cowardice on spiking the domestic surveillance story in the lead up to the 2004 election. But even he didn't claim Keller did in order to help GW win the election. OP made that up out of whole cloth.

I don't think HN comments like this are propaganda, but they are low-effort and apparently impulsively written.

At least nobody has yet used the pretentious terms "Gell-Mann Amnesia" or "Overton window" in this thread, so that's progress. :)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_military_analyst_prog...

Noam Chomsky the genocide denier who is most famous for thinking LLMs are impossible because you can't learn language unless it's hard coded?

I wouldn't consider him a reputable source on anything.