The NYT: It’s really pitiful. Because in between all the spun headlines, blatant editorializing in news stories, pathetically predictable opinion writing, propaganda for whatever happens to be the latest “alternative lifestyle du jour”, and occasional Jayson Blair fraud, there is still some really good writing to be found. It is almost painful to still see what this paper once was, and could still be, if it weren’t for the “vision of the anointed” Pinch Sulzberger.

Then I remember that this was also the paper of Walter Duranty (who deliberately kept shtumm about the man-made famines in the USSR) and whose biologically Jewish owners played down initial reports about the ongoing Shoah in order not to look like a “Jewish” newspaper.