The New York Times as the Velvet Underground?! Sorry–this is an analogy that’s a Pinch too strained, though I understand the point that Kevin D. Williamson is trying to make:
The problem with the Times isn’t that its readership is huge, though it is huge. The problem is that the Times is the Velvet Underground of newspapers. Lou Reed’s old band didn’t sell many records, the story goes, but everybody who bought their record started a band. The Times may not be read by everybody, but it’s read by everybody who’s anybody in the media. Through its influence on the Associated Press, broadcast news, and the second- and third-tier dailies, the Times and its biases end up shaping the news in markets far, far removed from the paper’s home turf.
So does this mean Maureen Dowd is Nico?
Journolist – top left wing cabal – what is it? who is in it? why is the MSM silent? Let us know.
hahahahaha
Well, she sorta is a cute chick put out there to get attention for the paper…
She certainly is someone who can’t sing either!
I wonder if Maureen’s personal habits match Nicos?
But consider this, the longer the Times is around the lower their reputation sinks.
The 1967 release of “The Velvet Underground and Nico” is gaining more and more historical significance as time goes on.
“Lou Reed’s old band didn’t sell many records, the story goes, but everybody who bought their record started a band.”
Because they figured if that ugly tripped-out fool can start one, anyone can. Good analogy. Explains the Huffington Post, et al.
“… it’s read by everybody who’s anybody in the media.”
There’s no question that this is true. It’s why the news media is lock-step liberal. Most journalists work for chump change, not even enough to raise a family, until they hit the bigtime, and that means working for a NYTimes-owned property. And NYTimes-owned properties only hire Leninists.
All other newspapers are farm teams whose job it is to weed out conservative journalists.
Did Nico take other peoples lyrics, leave out select words, and completely change the meaning of the songs? Cuz “Dowdify” is now a verb taught in the best journalism schools.
Mikee, I prefer “Dowdlerize”
See “Bowdlerize”
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMI_enUS311US313&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define:+bowdlerize
Only she doesn’t omit the offensive out of quotes, just the stuff that weakens her arguments.
If modo was Nico, she at least would have conjucated with a man once in her life.
Or is Maureen Dowd Mo Tucker? Nope. Mo isn’t an idiot.
Hopefully the Times, like the Velvets, will go away forever, so that its historical significance can become apparent once it is gone.
If it turns out the Times is nothing like the Velvet Underground, it will still be good for it to be gone.
Nico, rest in peace: Maureen Dowd is not worthy so say your name aloud.
http://tinyurl.com/6e64m6
Don’t forget that the Times influences all US newspapers that take its wire service. Newspapers have few resources for in-depth national news. There’s the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post/LA Times (they share a wire service, so if you get one, you get the other) and maybe McClatchy (formerly Knight-Ridder).
So newspaper readers have, at most, four stories to choose from on any national issue that gets reported, all of them leftist to some degree, or at least protective of whoever’s in power.
No wonder newspapers are in trouble.
“Or is Maureen Dowd Mo Tucker?”
Yes, if you spell it with an “F.”
I hate to admit it, but many years ago I worked as a desk editor at a small paper and since I was young I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my news judgment, so I relied on the NY Times budget to help guide my decisions in what was a front page story and what we should use inside. So a lot of the emphasis on wire news in our paper was guided by what the Times said was important, even though we were on the other side of the country. I don’t think that is that unusual, really.
At least “Heroin” explains the NYT Editorial Board.
I’m not gonna have to stuff a banana down my pants, am I?
If modo was Nico, she at least would have conjucated with a man once in her life.
And there would be video.