Posted on 01/24/2015 9:31:07 AM PST by Kaslin
The author does not mention reading the comments to the editorials.
Interestingly, most regular readers and commenters of the NY Times do not drink the Kool-Aid. Krugman probably has the biggest fan club, but at least half the comments say he is an idiot and don’t know what he is talking about. For Blow, Kristoff, and Friedman, it is more like 75%. It must be discouraging for liberals if their core audience no longer supports them.
Nonsense!
“It must be discouraging for liberals if their core audience no longer supports them.”
So If I understand you correctly, NY liberals have been “inbreeding” (not unlike their Muslim “brothers”) for so long that they have succeeded in driving down their IQ’s into at least the double digit range, thereby abolishing any “powers of discernment” they may have ever had. Is that it?
Why? There really is no reason to do so anymore.
The only news from the NYT I care about:
1) how much their ad revenue is shrinking
2) how much their subscription base is shrinking
3) how much their workforce is shrinking
But don’t tell them that.
The NYT’s readers think they are the most intelligent people in any room they enter.
I read the comments because it gives me such a good laugh to read the horrible writing as they try to make themselves sound as intelligent and sophisticated as possible.
“But dont tell them that.
The NYTs readers think they are the most intelligent people in any room they enter.”
NYC is such an insular place politically that they can continue to operate in their “group think” mentality and get away with it. The “real world” for them is bounded by a couple of rivers that they seldom cross. Funny thing is it takes nearly 40,000 cops to keep them from killing each other.
‘’Newspaper of record’’ did not originate with the editors.
According to Times archivist Lora Korbut, the phrase first appeared in 1927, when the paper sponsored an essay contest to promote its annual index. Entrants were asked to elaborate on the contest’s title, ‘’The Value of The New York Times Index and Files as a Newspaper of Record.’’ (This probably did not attract as many contestants as ‘’The Apprentice.’’) Somehow what began as a promotion for an index service soon adhered to the skin of the paper itself, perhaps because the meticulous presentation of the acts of officialdom was long one of the ways The Times distinguished itself in an eight-newspaper town.
the paper of record?
The paper of broken record is more like it.
Here are some examples, and they are just for this month
Brooks is PBS' idea of "balance."
I often tell the story — I used to listen to NPR. They had EJ Dionne and David Brooks discuss the issues of the day. EJ Dionne was (of course) solidly for Obama. Now, once in a while, Dionne would try to be reasonable and he would allow that (maybe) Obama made a small mistake here or there. Then Brooks would give the Republican perspective. He was ALWAYS more supportive of Obama than Dionne. Obama, in his opinion, seemed to be a living god.
I think the reason that LIBERALS tend to appear to have the upper hand is because they control the PA system and the microphone.
Simply put: They have been put in the select positions to expound their LIBERAL LUNACY thus making it appear they're POV is much stronger and dominate than it actually is.
Most of these people fall into a very simple category:
"There are those who do not know and think they do."
Well, in that case, the NY Times is foolish to allow their readers to respond to these editorials. It shows how little support their positions really have.
On the other hand, it does bring in the subscriptions. Many people subscribe to be able to read the comments and reply themselves.
I use a different nic there.
Yet, they continue to spew and expound the same old sorry bull$hit.
Maybe they should come up with an app where their viewers could say they are idiots, and the answers would appear on the screen.
That would attract many viewers, I would imagine.
[Charles Blow also has one column that he writes over and over: Life Is Unfair For Black People in America.]
It doesn’t matter what Blow writes in The Times. He is the paper’s token African American columnist. A computer couldn’t produce more predictable “insights.”
On General Principle, one does not give financial support to deadly and murderous enemies. I don't care HOW occasionally a reporter reports an international fact. They are the enemy. Period.
But even scarier is that my kids don’t read ANY newspaper. They deem them outdated. My daughter said no one will be reading newspapers in 100 years. But she believes EVERYTHING she reads on the internet. Well at least newspapers are dated and recorded and files are kept and names of people who write the articles are kept. With the internet there is nothing of that. I find that even scarier. I can’t get our kids, who are in their 30s, grown, out on their own, to read a newspaper, or to vote anymore!
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