Posted on 07/24/2004 7:30:15 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
My question is, "Is the NYT even a newspaper?"
Response: Does a horse have a neck?
What this editor admits is the death knell of the NYT. He admits that it prints what the left WANTS to read, not what actually happened. Hence, it is not a newspaper, but a propaganda sheet, like Pravda or Itar Tass of yore.
New Yawkers have this amazing ability, which is shared by the left coasters, to fool themselves into thinking that they are the 'cutting edge' of society, that the way they do things is the way everyone should do things. Of course, they are delusional, and as with most of the mentally ill, don't realize it. They think everyone else is strange, and they are normal.
dude, the definition of a LIBERAL is apparently NOT what you think it is, if you equate being a liberal with 'liberty'.
The current crop of so-called liberals are marxist-socialists.
Conservatives believe in liberty
What site was the original image from? (I seem to remember humor.com).
Let me look in my cookies.
www.thehumorarchives.com
"I'll take 'No Ship, Shirtlock' for $2000, Alex!"
I went back and read, rather than skimmed. This is a really good article! I actually enjoyed it, once I got past the DUH factor.
I guess what gets me is that the NYT still wants us to believe that it is a respectable news outlet, and it is a ubiquitous one at that, as everywhere you travel, there it is, in the hotel lobby. However, the paper's choice of what it publishes, doesn't publish, and where it hides news it must print but does not like, makes it far more similar to the Village Voice than a paper like, for instance, The Wall Street Journal. If the publisher wants to pander to the assortment of loons that has taken a stranglehold on the city, then by all means, have at it. But they should not try to convince the rest of us that they are a mainstream, respectable publication. Unfortunately, too many people still do believe that that's just what they are!
Yeah, I read this last night, thinking there might be more honesty from the ombudsman...but he does make many excuses for the 'paper'. Kind of disgusting.
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Considering the fact that the most liberal people in NY, (and probably over 90% of those who write for the Times) are transplants from fly-over country (or the NW) and couldn't say "noo-yawk" (or how ya dooin') properly with lessons, I'd say it's more accurate to say "it's a liberal, elite, leftist, a-hole from anywhere who thinks the NYT's is the word of God (unless there is no God) thing..."
(For transplanted NY Times staffies - the reference is to the baseball club currently playing in Chavez ravine in Los Angeles, the etymological derivation being garnered from their Brooklyn antecedents and the, er, quality of play whilst ensconced in that fair burrough...)
You got that right! I only get the Sunday S-B for the Help Wanted, but I read through all of it. Everything is liberally slanted down to the stories they print! Shameless! !
In his half-step way, Daniel Okrent may yet be the child who exposes that the emperor has no clothes.
BTTT
At least the folks in NY have an alternative in the NY Post...
He's already announced that he's leaving when his contract is up. (Another year or so, I believe.)
You've prob. seen this, but it is a remarkable read.
Too bad nothing is likely to come of it. Just the "Okay, we've done the confession-thing; now back to business as usual." Like Clinton.
Dan
I am amazed this article has not gotten more play here on FR. I think it is a telling admission. A liberal ombudsman acknowledging that the NYT is liberal. I guess that answers the question "What Liberal Media?"
I would be very interested to hear conversations in liberal living rooms when they read this.
I am disappointed with Okrent's inability to look outside his own liberalness. For instance, on the gay marriage question, he presented it as an issue of civil rights vs. consequences of gay marriage as opposed to civil rights (leftist perspective) vs. encouraging Immorality (right perspective). He also should have addressed that as long as they are spinning a liberal/New York/Urban perspective, they should abandon their claim to being the paper of record.
That said it is a step in the right direction. I think it telling that he made this admission and promptly headed for the beaches so he didn't have to deal with the fallout. My guess is that his office will be slammed harder by angry liberals for giving up the game than he has ever been by conservatives.
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