One man's opinion.
I pretty much agree with him.
They aren't the first paper whose rich-as-fuck ownership has different views from their readership and who have tried to push their opinions down everyone's throats. That has scuttled other papers, but the NYT has been subtler about it than, say, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, whose fuckery along those lines led to that paper's near-implosion and left Pittsburghas possibly the largest American city without a daily newspaper. (Pittsburgh has a population of about 300,000. Contrast that to New London County, CT, which has 30,000 fewer residents and at least two daily print newspapers.)
The Times keeps adding online games, so odds are that a fair number of their online subscribers are only there for them.
Anyhoo, I started on this a bit ago and I can't find where I found the link. Let me know and I'll add the credit
Making A Boob Of One’s Self, Part 15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSPwexlyTo
Many moons ago I told my neighbor, who likes to analyze things, why I read the Times. I told him was for the crossword, the obituaries, the Metropolitan Diary and Dowd and Friedman in the Op Ed. My latest Wordle average in 3.649.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K33o1FtLgwM
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The decision of the Post-Gazette to move rightward (in 2018) was especially blockheaded, as Pittsburgh's ultra-right-wing Tribune-Review had lost the city's newspaper battle, going digital in 2016.
The Tribune-Review had survived that long only because it was subsidized by the late Richard Mellon Scaife, who lost about $25 million a year on it.
The Post-Gazette's ownership should have realized that becoming a second Tribune-Review would be a bad move.
The Cletus Safari has been a joke for years and yet, they keep doing it. Who is that for? The Times could go full Murdoch today and the wingnuts would still hate it. Dunk, or Dip, or Dash, or whatever stupid nicknamed Sulzberger nepo baby in charge must really love that crap.
I grew up in Louisville, KY which had one of the 10 best newspaper in the US as rated by the Columbia School of Journalism. The older generations aged, two sons died in tragic mischance, and the remaining offspring, including a brilliant estranged ultra-feminist daughter, fought over who would take over what. In the end it went to Gannett in 1986. It had won 8 Pulitzers (1918-1980). In the 36 years since the sale, it has won 3 and now headlines restaurant openings and sports events. Mostly, it's good for lining bird cage bottoms. Such a loss.
A local paper owned by Gannett or a hedge fund is almost always fit only for lining bird cages, cushioning the inside of packages or using as impromptu drop cloths.
The venerable and authoritative James Fallows takes the NYTimes to task and knocks their ass out of the park
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-38-days-to-go.
Fallows is a LOT more qualitatively and quantitatively detailed. 5 cent recap of their attitude as he details it: We are the NYTimes; go eff yourself....except that they see themselves as the God of Olympus and above all criticism.
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