School forcing me to buy NY Times, what should I do? [vanity]

[sdk7x7]

I am currently a high school student at a public HS in New York State. This year (I'll be a senior), one of the requirements for my AP Gov't and Politics course is to pay a small student subscription fee for the NY Times. As a long-time reader of the Times, as well as a reader of TimesWatch.org and Coulter's SLANDER, I have recognized (and been disgusted by) the paper's clear liberal agenda.

The question is, what should I do? I am considering proposing to get USA Today or WSJ instead, but the former is not a great journalistic paper and the latter focuses more on financial issues than the news. The Wash Times would be a great option, but they don't offer daily delivery outside the DC area.

Any suggestions?

[lewislynn]

I saw this headline just before your post:
'I saw young children and adults leaving the bus burnt'

I also saw this "vanity":
Prayer Request for A Tiny Baby

Then your "vanity": Any suggestions?

Read the friggin thing then grow up, stop whining and get a life......

[Cathryn Crawford]

It sounds like it!

My classes start Thursday - good luck to you!

[rwfromkansas]

BTW, if you have to use the NYT still, get your own newspaper and compare its daily news coverage to the Times.

Turn it in as an assignment to the teacher and ask what he thinks of your critical thinking skills.

[rwfromkansas]

Sonny makes a good point. You likely will be discussing in class what you read in the Times.

Therefore, read some coverage in diff papers and come to class prepared to knock holes in story coverage by exposing bias.

[profmike23]

The University of Texas.

Uh oh. I have run across your posts (I am more a lurker because so often posting requires replies and rebuttals and I end up spending so much time here) but never knew you went there.

This just popped out since I am a Sooner (poli-sci sophomore). Liberal professors suck. Be seeing you come October...

[hoosiermama]

Make sure you read/share the first chapters of Dick Morris's (Clinton's advisor) OFF WITH THEIR HEADS. It will give you a lot factual materials to share with your teacher.
Morris tells it like it is!

[Timesink]

WSJ all the way!

Only the WSJ's editorial pages are conservative. The newsroom is as liberal as any major "mainstream" media newsroom in any city in America.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[A Navy Vet]

Write a letter to the New York Post regarding this requirement.

[winner3000]

Even you eventually have to buy the NY Times, you might use it as a source for your papers that deal with proving the non-objectivity of the NY Times. You could do a paper using examples that you see every day in their first "news" page, and especially in the titles.

[EuroFrog]

Yes the paper is a liberal rag and is not worth the paper it was printed on but I suggest getting the darned thing and doing the assigned work and not whining about it.

[Major_Risktaker]

WSJ read it and learn!

[Fledermaus]

Kill all the school officials

[MattAMiller]

Just for the sake of being different I'm going to suggest that you cut class, hang out in a vacant lot, and drink beer.

[sdk7x7]

For the record, I'm not opposed to reading a different point of view, such as the Times' editorial page (in fact, I often read The New Republic, the Nation, etc to get the OTHER side). However, I find that the NY Times presents its so-called "objective" news in the non-editorial sections with a left-wing motive.

A source like NewsMax can get away with that... the paper of record can't (shouldn't).

[SAJ]

Nah, aside from the editorial page (a separate fiefdom at WSJ), that paper is also a socialist rag. Look at the regular columnists, f'Heaven's sake. Jackie Calmes, oy. Hitt, David Rogers, Gerald Seib? Great bloody C--ist, might as well read Pravda as that lot!

[longtermmemmory]

For one class in law school we were given the choice of NYT or Wall Street Journal. Many of us just subscribed to both.

No reason you can't have ammo to show the absudity of the NYT.

[lelio]

and I thought subscribing to this alternative source would invigorate debate and stimulate thinking..

Not to mention that everyone else in the class is going to subscribe to the NYT as well. Bring up that viruses spread quickly in monocultures.

[SAJ]

Strongly recommend that you avoid, at least, the daily columns on currency trading and the futures mkts. I've kept for years a file of the absolute howlers appearing in these columns. Occasionally, I post them on forum.ino.com, a trading website.

You quite literally cannot believe some of the outright and hilarious stupidity occasionally published in these two columns.

One example, from August 2001, byline Peter A. McKay (who still, incredibly, does this column from time to time)...and I quote, verbatim, ...

''New York coffee's 'C' contract finished broadly lower today. Market sources indicated that the arrival of fair weather aided the growers in their efforts to clear fields for next year's crop, so sellers took advantage of the favorable weather to drive prices downward.''

If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you don't...but you might ask why that sentiment IS so hilarious. (Here's a hint: coffee is a perennial, ok? It ain't wheat.)

[quietolong]

Sounds like more of a shakedown. There is no reason to require everyone to subscribe. Students can go to the library.
Tell’m to get there kickbacks from someone else!