https://freerepublic.com/tag/nytimesombudsman/ en-us Sun, 9 May 2004 12:33:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1132278/posts UNLESS I acquire some unexpected clout around here in the next 48 hours, Times readers will wake up on Tuesday morning to read a prominent story announcing the nominees for an artistically meaningless, blatantly commercial, shamefully exclusionary and culturally corrosive award competition. Let me put it another way: unless Times editors have overcome several decades of their own inertia, readers on Tuesday will find a prominent story serving the pecuniary interests of three privately controlled companies whose principals have earned the right to convene in what Damon Runyon once called "the laughing room." That was Runyon's term for the sound-proofed... NY Times (Week in Review) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1132278/posts#comment Sun, 9 May 2004 12:33:29 GMT