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.
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LOL! Eloquently stated!
Wouldn’t it be funny if Rupert Murdoch bought it and made Roger Ailes the editor?
I would like to see the EIB Network buy it and make Rush the editor.
Rush couldn’t afford the pay cut.
or an under the table bailout via dark slush fund
if apocryphal stories about a young woman carrying a mattress around campus is considered high journalism - then no one should be surprised the NY Times is going down.
That’s an excellent idea!
Can you imagine the NY Slimes becoming an excellent conservative media source?
It would be historic!
That is so sad.
I looked at your words, and was taken by your pertinaciousness and urbane description of what many consider the reservoir of breeding and refinement. I thought to myself, why is this tax unit; named, Nervous Tick, of the Lumpenproletariat mocking the enlightened gods of words, (otherwise known as the New York Times?
So I decided to look up the choice of your newly discovered vocabulary, by referencing my special list of sesquipedalian florid nouns, just to check if denouement was listed, and it was! However, because my list is printed in the form, of a boustrophedon row of Daedalus-like disambiguated construction of linguistic solipsism’s, It took my considerable autodidactic training to pluck from the list, the perfected response, which my free will commands me to choose.
Yes here it is…at the end of my list, a side-by-side analysis of the words: The New York Times, and a synonymous description of the afore mentioned enterprise. It definitively defines The New York Times as:
The indignantly smarmy, self-important, neo-aristocrats, cum sonorously bromide tools, of a nightmare Marxism.
And it suddenly, it occurred to me…it’s time for another Martini!
Great post, BTW, I love words too.
Die, Old Gray Prostitute, Die !
(better cadence)
Lol
I thought Carlos Slim bought a big chunk of it.
Interesting and nicely done article, but quite frankly I don’t care who or which side of the house takes the hits, just so long as NYT is forced to fire a couple of hundred people every year. NYT deserves all the financial losses they incur because, after all, very few in their right minds are paying to have lies delivered to their doorstep when they can get all the lies they want for free on the Internet.
It’s been a long time since journalism was practiced at the NYTimes. Time to let it go.
Perfect summary of their failing economic model.
>> BTW, I love words too.
And, I’m guessing, you love acronyms as well.
So... ROFL at your post! Great way to start my morning.
FRegards, and Merry Christmas
Ken Kurson: I can’t understand what you are writing about. Short , to-the-point sentences are much better to covey ideas.
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