Keller Says 'N.Y. Times' Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base

Editor and Publisher ^ | 06/26/05 | E&P Staff

[NewMediaFan]

Dan Rather onced declared the NY Times a "middle of the road" newspaper.

That alone speaks volumes.

[Agent Smith]

Paul Krugman hahahahaha!

Maureen Dowd hahahahahaha!

Frank Rich hahahahahahaa!!!!!!!

[OpusatFR]

Must hurt when those circulation figures go down. Even effete liberal snobs need to eat.

[ncountylee]

“A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”

Bill Keller 2/17/05

[philo]

The last Republican they (NYT) endorsed for President was in 1956.

[Congressman Billybob]

You're sure this is serious. I mean, it didn't come from Scrappleface or the Onion, did it? Assuming this story is true, then Bill Keller has correctly diagnosed why the NY Times is going down the journalistic dumper. There is also a zero chance that he, of all people, can possibly lead such a change.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "An Open Letter to Justice Kennedy"

[OldFriend]

Would it ever occur to them to simply print the facts and let their biases remain on the editorial pages where we can agree or disagree.

[CatQuilt]

"the paper's Credibility Committee"

That pretty much says it all.

Do ALL newspapers have a credibility committee?

LOL

[FreedomSurge]

Hyenas can't change their spots.

[hinckley buzzard]

You can just tell he understands the Slimes' real problem.

[citizencon]

The cancer is incurable and terminal.

[mdmathis6]

"All the News that's been Fitted for Fools"!

[Cicero]

Sure. They could invite Frances Kissling to write about Catholics. Maybe some clintonoid from Little Rock could represent the Evangelicals. Ward Churchill could speak for flyover country. Then they could get . . . .

[NewMediaFan]

[Kay Syrah]

Field trip alert

Sounds like he wants the reporters to take dangerous field trips into the uncivilized red states.

Well, I'm not sure they'd make it out alive. One of the funniest things I've ever red about the urban blues.

[finnman69]

Put it this way. On Father's Day the Times ran:

-A huge article about the movement to ban gay marriage with a magazine front page photo of two just married lesbians kissing.

-and another big fluff piece in the Style section on metrosexuals and straights being seen as identical based on style.


It was so in your face it made me laugh as I just happened to be given a copy. I dropped my subscription in 2002.

[68skylark]

I would love to see the New York Times severely reduced in public stature during his editorial tenure, so I pray the movement to broaden its appeal falls way, way short of the mark.

My feelings aren't as harsh as yours (maybe because I don't know the players as well as you do). Nevertheless, I think we all know how this movement to broaden their appeal is going to work out -- there is no chance whatsoever that it will succeed.

[BluH2o]

"First and foremost we hire the best reporters, editors, photographers and artists in the business ..."

Right ... why is it the name Jason Blair comes to mind when I read this disingenuous NY Times BS?

[LibFreeOrDie]

That was great, thanks! I've met urbanites like these up here in the "wilds" of New England. Years ago, I was at a wild game supper put on by a church in a small Vermont town. The folks sitting next to me had driven up from Manhattan. When the church lady came 'round to explain what was on the menu, the New Yorkers asked her for the wine list!

[Riley]

“A blog is still a view of the world through a pinhole,” he said, noting that it can sometimes fall as low as being a “one man circle jerk.”

I'd still rather view reality through a whole lot of pinholes than to depend on it being related to me by someone with a known agenda.