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Originally Posted by El Blanco
What is really funny is that people who are actually from New York know what a rag the Times actually is.
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Well, I am from New York, and considering all the other New Yorkers who read and buy it, I'm willing to bet your assumption here is a bit off.
People who don't like the reporting of a certain paper or news outlet tend to have issues with it because they don't like
what they're reporting, or their inability to report it "right."
I am in the same boat, guilty as charged. I have often criticized the Times for being too conservative in their reporting, while many on the Right see it as a bastion of Liberal lying and deceit. Meanwhile, I spoke to a Communist friend of mine today, and he called the Times the most conservative paper he has ever read. It's like NPR. People on the Left call it "National Pentagon Radio," whereas folks on the Right call it "National Palestinian Radio." I'm more than convinced that if everybody hates you, on all sides of the spectrum, then you must be doing something right.
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Granted, the Post and News aren't beacons of journalistic integrity either, but atleast they don't have the pretentious bullshit attitude the Times likes to sport.
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Well, then right here we have the two extremes. You admit that the Post and others are shit, yet you find the Times to be too pretentious. The Times, by FAR, has broader reporting, better coverage, and more thoughtful editorials than the Post, hands down. Which would you rather have, a tabloid fronted as a serious newspaper (and to argue that they don't take themselves seriously is a bit naive), or a decent paper that may misuse the word "precocious" from time to time...?
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One of the many jokes in and about the NYC public school system is that teachers will bring in copies of the Times and hand them out to students.
Research? No.
Study writing styles? No.
Expand vocabulary? Sort of.
the assignment is to put the students into smaller group and each group has to produce a page of large words that were either mispelt or out of context.
I have a few friends teaching in the system and they say that the students never come up short and rarely repeat each other.
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Cute story, but Max is definitely right. Have they done the same with the Post, the Daily News??? How about Newsday, or the L.A. Times?? What about the Miami Herald or the Houston Chronicle??? The reason we can all snicker and joke about the Times is that it has a certain reputation to uphold, one that they generally hold true on. These other publications are not held to anything close as the same standards, and thus this issue, for example, with someone like Jayson Blair, never becomes an issue.
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but the Times is so haughty taughty you have to poke fun at them.
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So I suppose it takes a more "observant" reader to see through this?? Battling condescension with condescension are we????
Again, what do you want? We all like to read outlets and publications that reinforce our own opinions. Again, I go back to my point in the other thread. This isn't indicative of the Times, rather, it's indicative of journalism. Spinster is on to something. Would any other paper be as open, responsive, and as introspective on a matter such as this? IMO, this doesn't stand as a strike against the Times, rather, it stands as a testament to their rigorous editing procedures.