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Right and not just that it's new, it's that it's noteworthy.

The NYT's motto is "all the news that's fit to print". The job of a news source is to report on stories that are A) new and B) noteworthy.

Sure they're sensationalist to gather more clicks. But even if they weren't, this skew wouldn't change.

I get what the article is trying to say, and they did call this out, but it's still a bit silly to do an entire data analysis to prove that newspapers primarily report on stories that are... newsworthy.