There are stories like this and of this quality in the New York Times, regularly.
I understand that most here won’t read that paper because of the politics, but they are the only publication that I am aware of in America, that still does these types of stories.
If you are willing to look past their politics, which I am, you can still read interesting and in-depth articles there.
Rupert Murdoch, on the other hand, destroys every newspaper he touches, relegating them to stories about nothing of importance, such as which Kardashian has done which nonsensical thing on any given day.
The Wall Street Journal also remains a home for interesting news stories.
You may want to tout the New York Times and slam Rupert Murdoch but you got a major fact wrong in your attack. Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, which you praise in your last sentence.
It’s too bad the New York Times can’t be trusted... because you’re right - they still have the manpower to put out interesting stuff. But that’s past for me now - I subscribed until they let Okrent go - then a gave ‘em up. It was just too much.
Apparently you don’t read local papers through out the country. The local sections ALL carry such stories.
There is nothing particularly special about the NYT. It is as left as they come. Yeah they publishers soft stories that are well crafted. Now balance that against what they just published on Benghazi.
I can find ‘puff’ pieces in any paper I pick up and yes they are well written.
To hell with the NY times. It’s a complete joke that you defend that commnist scum of a Newspaper. I suppose Pravda has a good article now and then as well. It certainly does not make want to tout how wonderful they are. Love for the NY times sounds like elitist crap to me.
If you post a link to good NYT stories on FR, I, and I am sure many others would welcome and read them. I’m not paying their charges though.
Feel free to post links to those stories sakic. You are doing the reading that we won’t do (heh).
What are you talking about? His papers give a pretty good view of how people live in the cities they cover and what is happening there, minus the PC spin you can find in paper's like the Times.
"Vanishing rural Southern Jews" isn't something you have to read the Times to hear about. I see stories about that in the Economist or the Forward. It sounds like the sort of thing you can also find in [Murdoch's] Wall Street Journal. In any case, we have this thing now called the Internet that brings us stories from a lot of different sources, so we don't have to be wedded to any one particular news source.