NYT faces wrath from its base over move toward the center

American Thinker ^ | January 05, 2008 | Thomas Lifson

[Let's Roll]

It’s too late for the Times to regain readership and like you I’m more worried about tampering with the WSJ.

[Reagan is King]

Adding one column per week from Kristol and a single article from Dalrymple constitutes a move to the center? Only for the NYT I suppose. I think they would rather go down with their sinking liberal ship than give Conservatives a fair shake.

[Uncle Miltie]

"although they are NOT conservative on the social issues, marriage and abortion"

While they are not forthrightly conservative on those issues, they are not liberal on them. For example, they are liberal on immigration. You don't see that staunch support of leftist positions on any other themes. They host columns written by people not on the staff that are socially conservative, moreso than social liberals.

So overall, I put the WSJ Editorial Page as strongly Economic and Defense conservative, and Socially slightly conservative.

[onja]

Same with me. Don’t know why.

[Doctor Raoul]

Bill Kristol...yeah, Mister Excitement.

[SatinDoll]

Most tech folk I know can barely stand to live in the real world. Why care about what they think of newspaper?

[The Electrician]

Interestingly, if you use two words from the title, “NYT faces”, you find it...

[Gator113]

I will support the NYT’s with money taken....... from my cold dead hands.

[FreedomPoster]

I fear you may be correct.

[Peet]

"Jane Smiley"

I thought that name sounded familiar! She wrote a truly hateful screed (Why Americans Hate Democrats; A Dialogue -- The unteachable ignorance of the red states.) after the 2004 elections. The left should be proud of her.

Smiley's cousin John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences) wrote a gentle but firm reprimand as only he can do. See Smiley at Ross' website to read it (includes a link to Smiley's hate-filled ramblings).

Peet

[pa_dweller]

I just posted a dup of this article. I did a search for NYT and it came up empty. It still comes up empty. Can anyone tell me if they get the same?

I thought I'd seen this somewhere. At the bottom of the search screen is this:

Limitations: Only article titles can be searched and words with three or fewer letters are not searched at all.

[Lorianne]

Thanks, I hadn’t noticed that before. Now I know!

[pa_dweller]

Re: Jane Smiley

Thanks. I read her [I can't find a proper pejorative to put here] article. Although it's gussied up with fancy words and such and she sounds real smart and all, I completely checked out at :

Here is how ignorance works: First, they put the fear of God into you—if you don't believe in the literal word of the Bible, you will burn in hell. Of course, the literal word of the Bible is tremendously contradictory, and so you must abdicate all critical thinking, and accept a simple but logical system of belief that is dangerous to question.

Slate article referenced

How can the Bible be simultaneously contradictory and logical?