Ten ways to complain now that the New York Times doesn’t have a public editor
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2 min readMay 31, 2017
- Write an actual letter to the editor. By hand. Mail it in an envelope. Maybe include a sticker! Or a piece of gum. Or maybe a temporary tattoo! Something to get your letter noticed.
- Grab Signal, message the Times pretending to be Jared Kushner delivering a confidential tip, and then confuse the hell out of them by complaining about the coverage of Hillary Clinton during the election.
- If you’re a print subscriber, call 800-NYTIMES to complain about delivery service and ask them where your real newspaper is.
- Leave a one star rating on the NYT app in the App Store, and go deep into your concerns about the Times’ reporting. Super deep.
- Download the NYT Crossword App and fit your angry feedback into the little squares, and just get angrier when the app tells you your answer is “wrong.”
- Install the NYT Cooking app, and invent your own genre of “subrecipe-ing” where you collect all the worst dishes you can imagine into a new folder called “What Dean Baquet should eat this weekend.”
- Research all your product purchases on Wirecutter and Sweethome, but don’t buy them with their affiliate links. Leave lengthy one-star product reviews on Amazon.com blaming The New York Times for your purchase decision…and artificially introducing jitter into the prediction needle on election night.
- Yell at your newspaper delivery guy as he drives by, and hope that he doesn’t have peternatural aim.
- Tweet to your followers.
- Blog.
