Every day, it is getting more and more depressing to watch the slow death of the New York Times.
It's never been a secret that the Times is a left-leaning paper, but at least it used to be a good left-leaning paper.
I swear, I have no idea who reads the drivel that comes out of Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich or Thomas Friedman and actually takes it seriously. Even more difficult to fathom is who is dumb enough to pay the subscription fee to TimeSelect to read this crap on line.
But worse than the awful Op-Ed page these days is the sloppiness in the news reporting and the blurred line between editorial writing and reportage that has infected the main pages.
At the moment, the paper is in the process of eating its own leg. Good. Something truly drastic needs to happen on 43rd street because the Times could not be losing respect more rapidly.
Which would be sad, because once the editorializing is beaten back to the last two pages of the A section, a healthy New York Times is a good thing to have around.
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Dave, I think your blog has done more to help Filipino Journalistic Practice than the New York Times has.
I could tell a friend or two, but not if I want to keep them. In the meantime, I'm clicking right on over to that Men's Rashguards site. Talk about profound and interesting!
The New York Times is an exceptional newspaper. Great for house training dogs, and spray painting.
My comment was funnier when the spam was showing up...
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