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2009-09-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 To be fair, I doubt anybody played a recording of that teleconference for the editors of the New York Times. They hadn't an NEA Deep Throat, unlike Mr. Breitbart.

1. A Deep Throat wouldn't go to the Times. The best he/she could expect would be to be ignored; they would also have to worry about being turned in.
2. The Times problem is that they ignore stories even after Fox or Briebart report them. They seem to have the idea that if a tree falls in the forest but the Times doesn't report it then it never happened.

Posted by DoDo 2009-09-30 00:47|| 2009-09-30 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Jill Abramson, who will now "assign an (unnamed) editor to monitor opinion media."

And Maureen Dowd announced she was taking a break from "serious" writing -whatever that means.

Coincidence?

Posted by Pappy 2009-09-30 01:08|| 2009-09-30 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps this explains the NYT 5yr stock loss of 78.5%.

Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-09-30 04:39|| 2009-09-30 04:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's a clue for the NY Times.

News is what other people DON'T want you to know.

Regurgitating press releases from PR outfits your journalists are friendly with is not news.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-09-30 06:17|| 2009-09-30 06:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Last night I couldn't find the remote and watched Joy Behar's new show on HLN. She had Bette Midler on and she cited that she feared that Glenn Beck's demagoguery could incite a Rwanda type clash in the US that could result in the demise of a half a million people. Wow! Where's Sigmund Freud when you really need him?

Posted by HammerHead 2009-09-30 08:25|| 2009-09-30 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I couldn't watch Behar's show. I put a stupidity filter on my TV

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-30 09:31|| 2009-09-30 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 In fact, it's ideological bias that keeps Times journalists from covering the news with impact.

The NYSlimes idea of 'impact' is to publish 32 consecutive front page stories on the Abu Ghraib scandal.

32. Consecutive. Front. Page.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-30 10:29|| 2009-09-30 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 It's not the first: It missed the John Edwards mistress and baby scandal

Not exactly missed as much as chose not to pursue. Their mealy mouth excuse was they couldnt find a credible second source. Of course, that didnt prevent them from printing a salacious and totally non-sourced hit piece on McCain during the same period.

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-09-30 11:03|| 2009-09-30 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Start a Minute 3:00 to see how Glenn Beck could cause a half a million deaths

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-30 11:31|| 2009-09-30 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Where's Sigmund Freud when you really need him?

Are we talking about projection here?

Posted by gorb 2009-09-30 12:13|| 2009-09-30 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 no, pen1s envy.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-09-30 16:31|| 2009-09-30 16:31|| Front Page Top

#12 This won't work for them either. Simply watching Fox and reporting on stories Fox breaks is going to help Fox make a further laughing stock out of the Times.

The only way they are going to see another decade is to remarket themselves as a paper for coastal sophisticates or to stop shouting about how much integrity they have and actually get some. Which would require a complete reboot of the entire institution. Bawwing about and attacking people who beat them to stories isn't going to work. Neither will following them to a story. I think they know this and that's why I think this new position isn't about getting to the stories Fox beats them too, it's about collecting ammo to use against Fox when Fox makes a mistake. I firmly believe this new postion is about sliming the competition.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-09-30 18:48|| 2009-09-30 18:48|| Front Page Top

#13 They could raise their price if they positioned themselves as bird-cage liner . . . .

Posted by gorb 2009-09-30 23:31|| 2009-09-30 23:31|| Front Page Top

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