"While I lived in NYC, the only useful part of the NY Times were the help wanted sections, and their crossword."
I spent my teen years in New York and remember conservatives in long Island refusing to read the Times. But as there was no net then, they often had no choice. I read it for a few years after I left in 1980 and stopped around the late 80's. By then my conservatism was comming out strong and the Times seemed like a thing of my mispent youth.
And now we see headlines like these.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/05/wosse705.xml
This cleric had the gall to say "The Mujahideen [Chechen rebels] would not have wanted to kill those people, because it is strictly forbidden as a Muslim to deliberately kill women and children. It is the fault of the Russians,"
Survivors told of children fleeing after the explosions and being shot in the back by these "peaceful Muslims". I'm still waiting, no doubt fruitlessly, for moderate Muslims to denounce these fringe militant groups for what they are, vile poison on this earth.