[wagglebee]

In a section of the memo headed “The News/Opinion Divide,” Keller conceded that "even sophisticated readers of The New York Times sometimes find it hard to distinguish between news coverage and commentary in our pages."

That's because the every page of the paper is full of lies!

Critics have charged for years that the Times newsroom is out of step with the majority of the country because the editorial staff represents but a small atypical slice of American demographics and opinion.

I'll go a step further, the Old Gray Whore is actually on the side of America's enemies.

[Indy Pendance]

"Should Conservatives Give The New York Times a Break?"

NO

[Tax-chick]

No. Next question?

[Originalist]

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

[SAJ]

"Should Conservatives Give The New York Times a Break?"

Certainly.

Both legs and a shoulder should do nicely.

[rcocean]

What an absurd article.

It plays into the conservative "Why can't we all just get along?" attitude.

The NYT is liberal because the Sulzberger family which OWNS the NTY is. It will continue to be so, until the publisher "Pinch" Sulzberger changes his views.

To believe otherwise, is to be naive.

[peyton randolph]

It wouldn’t hurt, either, for Times critics on the Right to show some patience because changing an entrenched culture like that of a newsroom isn’t going to happen overnight, nor will it occur without some unexpectedly abbreviated careers and a surplus of discontent bred by an inability or refusal to change.

It certainly would change overnight if half of the current staff was fired and replaced with conservatives.

[newzjunkey]

Hmmm... NO!!

[King Prout]

I find their newfound honesty in self-evaluation refreshing.

however, they shall have no "break" from me until they earn it.

talk is cheap.

[Shawndell Green]

"I'll go a step further, the Old Gray Whore is actually on the side of America's enemies."

Good call!

[Liberty Valance]

Sure. I'll cut them some slack. Give Ben Stein, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter just half of the opinion page and we've got a deal. :o)

[cripplecreek]

Personally I think all "big media" people should do an internship in small towns in flyover country. Their attitudes would change if the had to face the people they insult on a regular basis.

[Libertarian444]

It wouldn’t hurt, either, for Times critics on the Right to show some patience because changing an entrenched culture like that of a newsroom isn’t going to happen overnight

Sorry, I refuse to be patient with these jerks. I'd like to see every single one of them in the unemployment line.

[GSlob]

As everybody knows, making speeches (or writing memos) about improvements is frequently considered as an equivalent substitute for the improvements themselves. Thus no credit should be given, or still more patience shown, until the actual improvements have been made. And these would have to include a wholesale importation of right-wingers, both as journalists and as editorial staff, for their existing lefties are not correctable, unless with a 2x4.

[FormerACLUmember]

I pray for the day when this evil lying deceitful propaganda rag has a circulation has collapsed to zero.

[rdb3]

I'll give them a break. They can have this broken left leg. Past that, no, they can get no other breaks from me.

[untenured]

How about instead we offer Keller encouragement and praise for ‘fessing up’ to serious problems of longstanding and for putting his own career and prestige on the line in making the effort to deal with those problems in a systematic and reasonable way?

On their Op-Ed page recently they've hired a neoconservative (David Brooks) and a libertarian conservative (John Tierney). But they still can't bring themselves to hire a social conservative. That is the most important wing of revitalized modern American conservatism, but it is the one that to NYT readers and writers sounds most like it comes from outer space. Reaching out will never be serious until they hire writers who, for example, are arguing passionately to Times readers that abortion on demand is wrong.

Globalization and Getting Along.

[DuckFan4ever]

Should conservatives give the New York Times a break?

Absolutely not. Let the free market decide. The New York Post is increasing circulation, while the NY Times is in decline. They will either learn or continue to lose market share. That's the perfect way to let this play out. Same thing with the Washington Post and the Boston Globe.

[PGalt]

For the damage they do to this country on a daily basis? Propagandists. NEVER!

[Polybius]

He also warned about “the misuse of [the phrase] ‘religious fundamentalists’ to describe religious conservatives.”

"Guys, I've been thinkin' this over. Let's stop using the N-Word and let's come up with a brand new slur."

[AzaleaCity5691]

The NYT is now running a national ad campaign to try and hock their paper, cause apparently, they want it to be "America's paper", they're even running ads here.

If they want it to be "America's paper" then they need to start hiring conservative journalists to their staff to balance out the liberal bias that it currently has