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Nellie Bowles
Personal blog · chosenbychoice.substack.comculturewriting
Nellie Bowles writes Chosen By Choice, a personal blog at chosenbychoice.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Learning How to (and How Not to) Kill”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Nellie Bowles' Substack post on what happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes, using it as support for arguments about media hit pieces and clickbait incentives.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is an essay series about converting to Judaism and living a Jewish life.
Most-linked posts?
- Learning How to (and How Not to) Kill3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-08
What Hacker News says?
The NY Times can be just as bad as any other online rag. They're incentivized to publish hit pieces, stories to spark outrage, anything to get clicks. Seems for many at the NYT, journalistic integrity is just some antiquated notion. Take this admission, straight from the horse's moouth [1]: > I’ve made my way up as a reporter in the time of social media and most-read lists. I know what will make a piece pop to the t…
Comment linking /p/learning-how-to-and-how-not-to-kill
on “What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes”Submitted Why Do I Know Nothing About the Soviet Union? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI find it plausible they don't give much of a shit about what they write, as long as they keep getting work. I find it absolutely wild to claim they don't aim to "get" people. Here is an article by a New York Times writer of hit pieces describing the thrill of writing hit pieces, how it advanced her career, and why maybe she shouldn't do it anymore even though it would be better for her career if she did: https://ch…
Comment linking /p/learning-how-to-and-how-not-to-kill
on “Slate Star Clusterfuck”Submitted Learning How to (and How Not to) Kill as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted San Francisco's Top Irishman [Tommy Collison] on His Conversion to Judaism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Denied Him (At Least) Three Times as a story · 1 points
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