The fuddy-duddy New York Times – trapped from time immemorial in the navel-gazing Zabar’s Zeitgeist – continues to attack John McCain. Could there be better luck for the candidate?
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I think the same rule that is applied when referring to A. Hitler should be applied to any article that includes a reference to OJ Simpson.
The Associated Press shows its bias with that ever so important last paragraph:
“You might get that base, but you won’t win the election,” he said. “It goes back to the old saying, ‘Don’t throw rocks at people who own ink barrels’ … and people have gotten sick and tired of the excuse that all media is liberal.”
The Times is in a financial tumble and those ink barrels might be on a COD basis as creditors refuse to carry NYT as a receivable. And remove “of the excuse” and then we’ve got some honest opinion going on.
“If the shareholders of The New York Times ever wonder why the paper’s ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper’s editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate,” said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.
That response makes me wet my pants
Not very smart of Goldfarb to work a slam at bloggers into an attack on the NYT.
Spot on, Roger.
Being denounced by the NYT is like being a shipbuilder getting told by Thomas Andrews* that your ship will never float.
Scott
* Designer of RMS Titanic.
Lem: It sent a tingle up my leg.
If the Times had any sense of reality and how much all but the hardcore left hates it, they would know the surefire way to get their Messiah elected.
Endorse McCain.
“The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine is a fine read. He notes the passing of the old filtering processes of the news, entertainment, and merchandise by the media, Hollywood and the pre Internet way of selling to the consumer. The old filtering mode is dead. Apropos, this comment, the old ways of forming opinion and support are passing. Define the Times readership? East and West Side and East Coast liberals. Not impressive. The Times has lost its edge and has lost its vehicle to make money and widen its influence. The Boston Globe is a huge financial albatross. The Times revenues cascaded last quarter by 16%. It now has placed non family stockholders on the board. Its dual level stock ownership structure is under serious challenge. While pedaling as fast as it can, with the growth of an alternate media, its Scotty Reston/Arthur Krock/Walter Lipppman salad days are buried.
When I awake, I check Google news not the Times, not the Washpo. I am in the majority now, not the minority. The old days of ink stained fingers at the breakfast table are long gone for me and most Americans.
I wonder if President Obama and a Democratic congressional majority will include a bailout of the newspaper industry when they reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
When I awake, I check Google news not the Times, not the Washpo.
With Netflix I’m discovering all kinds of films I never knew existed. When I think of all the time I wasted at the video stores where I walked out empty handed many times.
I watched ‘The Lookout’ last week – a gem.
The NYT is as predictable as death and taxes. We just know what they are going to say, before they even say it.
Lem:
I will check out Lookout – thanks
This is one of Anderson’s points about Netflix; the “80% profits/top 20% of flicks” rule is being debunked because Netflix making more money more consistently from the old bottom 80 then from the top 20. Like the Lookout. Thanks
small historical point for jedrury: lippmann made his name at the herald tribune of blessed memory, never at the times.
GreenEyeShade:
Agreed.
I thought about that as I was walking down the street yesterday. But then I wondered if anyone would spot it and of course with your moniker, you have made a fine point of correction. Thanks
Bring back the Herald Tribune which had a Republican ownership and allowed all kinds of opinion on its opinion pages – the best arts criticism, the first food columnist, the first woman foreign affairs writer, Dorothy Thompson – and no special pleading and whimpering..
What goes up has to come down. The Times wiped out the HT almost fifty years ago. Tomorrow, Rupert Murdoch and the WSJ (far more variety of opinion than the Times) will wipe out the Times. Hurrah.
The NYT has been the big dog on the block and knows there is no other single news outlet that can take it on (especially with the big three networks simply copying its work). However, every time it publishes some boneheaded article or editorial it suffers thousands of little attacks by conservative and moderate bloggers which have and will continue to take their toll.
Good, no one likes an arrogant elitist.