Comments on: The New York Times Doesn’t Read The New York Times http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: belladonnarogers http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/#comment-93787 belladonnarogers Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:26:01 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/#comment-93787 When I saw the cover headline in Sunday's NYT Mag, "THE END OF REPUBLICAN AMERICA" I actually thought of RLS.com and wondered if you'd blog about how pathetic, self-absorbed (Zabar's Zeitgeist, indeed) and dolefully inaccurate the Gray Lady has become. Some genius in the Art Department did the cover illustration for this story (BTW,"story" for the NYT can be loosely translated as "WISH" as in "We WISH this would happen. We WISH this were actually the news, so let's go with it.") The mag cover showed a PhotoShopped red toy elephant ("Get it?" the Art Dept genius must have crowed, "Red! As in the flyover"), lying on its side, the air seeping out of it. Yeah, right. In their dreams. That entire newspaper, Art Department, News Department and Opinion Department---as if the entire paper isn't just one big Opinion Dept---reminds me of Pravda, propped up with Prada ads. I'm glad you chose to work on your book. (Why did I see the Sunday Times, given my view of it? Because my view is not shared by my entire household, and while I was throwing it out, I noticed the mag's headline & "art" work and thought, "What a revoltin' waste of $648 dollars a year THIS is." More than half a Lakers seat, unless it came with Jack Nicholson sitting in it.) When I saw the cover headline in Sunday’s NYT Mag, “THE END OF REPUBLICAN AMERICA” I actually thought of RLS.com and wondered if you’d blog about how pathetic, self-absorbed (Zabar’s Zeitgeist, indeed) and dolefully inaccurate the Gray Lady has become. Some genius in the Art Department did the cover illustration for this story (BTW,”story” for the NYT can be loosely translated as “WISH” as in “We WISH this would happen. We WISH this were actually the news, so let’s go with it.”) The mag cover showed a PhotoShopped red toy elephant (”Get it?” the Art Dept genius must have crowed, “Red! As in the flyover”), lying on its side, the air seeping out of it. Yeah, right. In their dreams.
That entire newspaper, Art Department, News Department and Opinion Department—as if the entire paper isn’t just one big Opinion Dept—reminds me of Pravda, propped up with Prada ads. I’m glad you chose to work on your book.
(Why did I see the Sunday Times, given my view of it? Because my view is not shared by my entire household, and while I was throwing it out, I noticed the mag’s headline & “art” work and thought, “What a revoltin’ waste of $648 dollars a year THIS is.” More than half a Lakers seat, unless it came with Jack Nicholson sitting in it.)

]]> By: gumshoe http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/#comment-93786 gumshoe Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:15:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/#comment-93786 sorry for the OT,Roger,but this line was funny enough,I thought your fellow readers would get a chuckle. "Who is Obama? Well, he is first of all someone who expects to get away with it. In that respect, if Bill Clinton was the first black president, Obama is the first black Bill Clinton." - quoting a poster from Belmont Club sorry for the OT,Roger,but this line was funny enough,I thought your fellow readers would get a chuckle.

“Who is Obama? Well, he is first of all someone who expects to get away with it. In that respect, if Bill Clinton was the first black president, Obama is the first black Bill Clinton.”
- quoting a poster from Belmont Club

]]> By: Ironman http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/#comment-93785 Ironman Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:25:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/03/31/the-new-york-times-doesnt-read-the-new-york-times/#comment-93785 The New York Times has always hinged its fortunes on trading accuracy for access, being all to willing to suspend pursuit of the truth in favor of that agenda. The real question may be "who benefits from this short-term memory loss?" Then again, <a href="http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2008/03/accelerating-decline-of-new-york-times.html" rel="nofollow">there's a cost</a> to be paid for these kinds of games.... The New York Times has always hinged its fortunes on trading accuracy for access, being all to willing to suspend pursuit of the truth in favor of that agenda. The real question may be “who benefits from this short-term memory loss?”

Then again, there’s a cost to be paid for these kinds of games….

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