Posted on 12/23/2014 6:22:16 PM PST by Beave Meister
Yesterday, New York Times readers were treated to a beautifully nuanced and balanced and richly detailed feature about a topic very much in the mix. Its author, Ariel Kaminer, came by her story and its scoop—the first interview with the accused (possibly falsely) rapist of the woman at Columbia who is carrying a mattress around campus to make a statement about campus sexual violence—by developing deep roots in a narrow beat, higher education. And now, Ms. Kaminer will join a hundred or so of her colleagues on the unemployment line as the Times once again cuts costs by cutting journalists.
The genius of the way The New York Times has structured itself is that lofty journalistic goals are protected from the short-term demands of grubby ordinary shareholders. Ironically–and distressingly, for those who care about journalism—it now appears that the financial demands of those holding the shares, and particularly the generous dividend they pay to the family members who hold large chunks of those shares, are now making it difficult to perform the very journalism the structure was created to protect.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
But... but... it was NUANCED! It takes “rich talent” to write a story like that with NUANCE!
Yeah, that one got me too!
I ask this with all sincerity.
Is this written with tongue in cheek? “Beautifully nuanced”? ‘Grubby’ hands of ‘ordinary’ shareholders?
It’s hard to spot satire any more.
Hey Pinch, eat sh@t and die.
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