The only reply is to be laughed at for being honest. Do you like losing elections? If you want your intellectual positions to be respected please show respect to the positions of other people who have a brain that is wired differently than yours.

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHA!!!!!

So there are people who have personal views far to the left of the NYT who read pajamas. There are even a few comments in this thread which convey information rather than rigidity and invective. That is the reason to read the blog. If the rest of you who are still in echo mode would stop reverberating, maybe more progress could be made.

Egosexualism is a legitimate lifestyle as well as a cruelly oppressed sexual minority. We demand that this type of language be expunged from decent journalism. The NYT, speaking on their behalf, would never use such hate speech. Indeed egosexuality is more and more evident in their employee representation as well as in their opinion pieces.

Some years ago a friend with whom I had worked at the NY Daily News “ascended” to a desk job at the Times, as the person who hired him described the appointment. He was in his early 40s at the time, single and lived in Chelsea. On his second day on the job a fellow approached his desk and introduced himself thus:

“Hi! You must be our new hire!”

My friend avowed that he was indeed a new hire, but his interlocutor’s tone led him to believe there was some deeper meaning to the “our” part of the sentence.

A little verbal dancing elicited the fact that my friend had been profiled as gay (single, Chelsea etc) when interviewed and, presumably, presented as such to other gay folks in the newsroom. Like Jayson Blair, he had been hired not for his talents but for his symbolic value.

My pal explained that he was about to marry (a female), attended Mass regularly and, while he had no animosity toward homosexuals, would prefer to be regarded as simply one more competent editor.

His questioner then flounced off in a huff. “Well,” he fumed, “they owe us another one then!”

If you want to know why the Times has fallen into such a deep pit of editorial and financial trouble, that hire-by-numbers policy is a big part of the answer.

The other part is the arrogance implicit in the assumption that simple readers are best served not with the straight truth but with the subjective truths of the interest groups, cliques and claques that represent the Times’ editorial operation.

As a journo, it’s sad to see a once fine paper fall to pieces. As a media Darwinist, however, I’m loving every downward tick in the stock price.

We shouldn’t stop with just The Times. General Electric Corporation acquired NBC (home to the famous Obama-worshipper Andrea Mitchell) in 1986. NBC and Microsoft jointly own MSNBC, the cable channel despised by conservatives for the extreme, shameless pro-Obama coverage of Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman during the past nine months. If there were ever a time to send NBC, MSNBC, and its disgusting parent GE a message, it’s this Christmas. When you’re out shopping this year, why not just skip over the GE refrigerators, electric ranges, dishwashers, washers, dryers, microwaves, digital cameras, cordless phones, water purifiers, and lighting products? There are many, many competitors that offer excellent alternatives to EVERY product GE makes — and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that not one red-white-and-blue cent of your wealth will be spread to support GE’s socialist propaganda outlets, NBC and MSNBC!

I especially like the term you coined as “bias-confirming communities” which could also be known as emotion-affirming clubs!

The big problem for America is the lack of foresight by these media owners has been a betrayal to America of a very important aspect of our system. The media always acted as an important check to the abuses and distortions perpetuated by those in power.

Now it seems one party has insulated themselves from fact finding scrutiny and we are left without a watch dog for a very corrupt section of town!