The Times is dying, yes, and their no-longer-just-perceived bias is a huge reason for it.
You hit the nail right there:
“the public, more eager for other vantage points than the one point of view offered by the Times, will end up deserting the familiar in order to satisfy their own cravings for information.”
It is happening to newspapers across the country…and that “craving for information” is being satisfied by the internet, cable TV, talk radio, and increasingly even less, magazines.
The fact is WE DON’T NEED THE NY TIMES anymore…nor do we want it in it’s present form. The Sunday issue provides alot of good things to fill a weekend…but so do other activites and papers. Why bother weeding through all the bias and prejudice to see how (bad) a latest movie is or why I should travel to Greece?
New Yorkers get their local news from other (better) papers and we HAVE a “national” newspaper that is ALOT more fun to read…USATODAY.
The slow painful death of the NY TIMES will be an interesting, fun, and perverse thing to watch. I can only hope to see it’s obituary published on the last day it prints!
