I don’t think we can wish them well even if we wanted to.

The problem with the nytimes is sheer, brazen mendacity. They are willing to lie, and lie, and lie some more in order to make their bias look like fact. The trick isn’t to tell big lies all the time, but take what should be reported more or less objectively and spin, and keep spinning until you’re in another realm. When you’re in that realm, you can justify giving one candidate op-ed space, denying his main opponent that same space, and call yourself the paper of record as opposed to piece of s**t run by 12 year olds.

This sort of thing has been going on for years, well before 2000. But Adam Clymer should have been the “shot heard round the world” if there ever was one: Bush was exactly right about him.

I’ll miss the nytimes: I enjoyed A.M. Rosenthal’s editing, Amanda Hesser’s columns, even parts of Travel and whatever various names they gave for their style section. I enjoyed some of the features in Magazine before that became a version of NPR, if NPR were run by Stalin. I’ve been reading the WSJ for years now, avoiding the nytimes almost entirely.