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I would like to know what how many people buy the NYT, do the crossword puzzle and then toss it in the recycle bin?

I have to confess I buy it on Fridays and Saturdays for just that purpose.

Fortunately, the Washington Times carries the Sunday puzzle.....

Can't speak to the NYT, but I long ago dropped daily delivery of the local rag, The Columbus Dispatch. For a while we just got Sundays, then they forced Saturday on us (no Sunday only). Saturdays paper goes into the trash unopened, and these days likely as not so does Sunday's. The ONLY draw is the weekly advertising and funnies (guilty), and if I don't get to them within a day or two even they aren't worth taking the thing out of the plastic for.

News? What news? Every national story printed is two to three days old, because I've already heard about them here and elsewhere on the net. Local stuff I hear about on the radio, or in the free rags that arrive on the doorstep. Local TV news is in the same boat as the Dispatch as far as I am concerned.

I disagree with this article somewhat. The author misses something, namely, what exposed Rather and promoted the Swift Boat vets in 2004, namely, the alternative media. The Republicans are not running against the MSM, they are running against the dems. That is where their focus needs to remain. Taking on the MSM allows the dems to skate on having absolutely NO agenda. The problem with having no agenda is that it allows your opponent to define you. So be it, the Republicans should be going negative and defining the dems asap. In the meantime, they need to get their heads straight and put forth a conservative agenda.

As for the MSM, its support of a party that has no agenda, its overt and obvious anti-Bush bias are its undoing. What makes the alternative media's job so damn easy is that the MSM is blind to the fact that more and more people see through its agenda. Let the MSM continue to beat its drum to its own demise. I would argue that the NY Times outing of secret programs used to prevent terrorist attacks is the Rathergate of this election cycle.