[nagrom]

It's not just France - the way that the NYT treats the UK has become a running joke e.g:

https://londonist.com/london/food-and-drink/until-recently-l...

https://unherd.com/2020/01/what-has-the-new-york-times-got-a...

This weird inability to reflect reality I see day-to-day coupled with the insistence on anti-patterns of behaviour for those cancelling their subscriptions has prevented me from taking out a sub to the NYT. That's a shame, as some of the articles are great.

[prof-dr-ir]

The second reference you gave lists four opinion pieces, one culinary review whose tongue-in-cheek comment it misinterprets, and one actual news article about the impact of austerity in Britain.

That one news article was a subject of intense discussion at the time which quickly became politicized. A decent overview of the discussion can be found at

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/business/prescot-makes-...

For what it's worth, I wholly subscribe to the OP's viewpoint that the NY times' reports from France have been subpar in recent months - in my view they have been too Americo-Centric and do not sufficiently recognize the different value system in France. But I have often been positively surprised by the paper's reporting on UK issues (and on Brexit in particular).

[mcguire]

You have to admit that Great Britain has a long-term reputation for boiling food to death. And their sporting culture seems even more Leroy Jenkins than that in the US.

[cududa]

Our Scottish and US families have long running jokes about one another’s cultures, and the food part was a long one. Until the matriarch on the Scottish side was here with a larger amount of the family and said “well our food is kind of pish in comparison”

[tonyedgecombe]

>You have to admit that Great Britain has a long-term reputation for boiling food to death.

Not for a long time.

>And their sporting culture seems even more Leroy Jenkins than that in the US.

Currently 6th in the medal table for the Olympics.