Frank Rich linked to this on Twitter, saying:
For those who care about the future of @nytimes, Joe Hagan’s blockbuster @nymag is sobering http://t.co/rVUsqdPt
No one comes off looking good. But what does a “bright future” for the Times look like, according to people that wring their hands about what a great paper it is? A mollified Sulzberger clan? Is that it?
Meanwhile, the paper itself gets worse and worse. What exactly are the people that “care about saving the Times” trying to save?
Truly, the people who care most about the future of the Times are people who work there and their friends, out of whose incestuous relationships are born so many bogus trend stories.
1 day ago
Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life - NYTimes.com
I went to Foxwoods once and it was one of the most depressing afternoons of my life. Old ladies sucking out of oxygen lines in front of slot machines. Horrible.
At CIA, a convert to Islam leads the terrorism hunt - The Washington Post
Absolutely unreal story. Why aren’t the wingnuts all over a Muslim convert running the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center? Because Bush put him there.
They like us to kill them!
2 months ago
The compelling, sad story of a life spent fulfilling Amazon.com orders from one of their warehouses. Powerful article. There go I, but for the grace of god, for now.
2 months ago
Here’s the thing about the United merger: the hiccups were mostly going to be at pre-merger United hubs, because they replaced United’s computers with Continental’s computers.
So not a lot changed at pre-merger Continental hubs. But hey, according to the Chron, there are lines at the airport that must be merger-related.
The problem here is so typical. The job description for a journalist seems to be: start from a position of no knowledge at all, develop a premise, find someone to say something you want to write, then report it in a way that is useful to no one.
Are lines at the airport during spring break merger-related? I guess we’ll never know! Not at this rate, anyway.
2 months ago
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