Mike:
Mike – Surely Pinchy can simply order an editorial to be written decrying the papers decline and prognosticating it’s improved future health. That should do the trick!. After all, he ordered the Viet Nam war to be lost by just such a procedure, unfortunately for him, that’s not working as well in the Iraq war as we seem to be winning, DAMMIT.
Incorrect, Pinch was just a college student during Vietnam. His father, “Punch” Sulzberger was widely respected and was – very rare in Jews – a true war hero (Marines in WWII and Korea combat) and strong conservative in many matters. He did have a liberal editor he gave free rein and he himself turned against the Vietnam War. Even so, he nearly puncched out pinch when his hippie son said he hoped that in a fight that the VC soldier would kill the American one.
Under “Punch”, the NY Times reached it’s zenith of respect and being considered the news source of record.
“Pinch” is a derogatory nickname, insinuating that if there is any of “Punch” in his sorryass son, it is no more than a “pinch”.
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David Thompson – The New York Times is a publication only suitable for the pseudo-educated.
That is just ignorant conservative babble. No one with any objectivity would say that the NY Times still covers a range of subjects better than anyone else and that much of their reporting and editing is still without peer.
What is obvious is the Times under “Pinch” has made a series of awful business decisions, has infected their Brand with anti-Western, anti- American, anti-national security through ideology and twisting news into editorializing.
The latter has been so obvious that even the Left now talks of “the NY Times Agenda for America” and rival news outlets in NYC and nationally have now started talking about their superiority to the NY Times in presenting news objectively without slant or hidden bias, and are showing success in that approach – as even liberals in NYC have tired of manipulative news from “Pinch”, all the Israel-bashing, his damaging national security just to “get Bush”.
It would be a shame if one man brought down such a great creation…but unless “Pinch” is soon shitcanned for a non-Sulzberger or a competent one like Michael Golden – the Times may just face the “class B lawsuit” music from failure to perform fiduciary duties to shareholders, evaporation of advertisers unhappy with being associated with “Pinch’s” ideologies…a hostile takeover or Sulzberger Family civil war beckons.
