Actually, without Drudge, FR, and similar sites, I doubt whether the NY Times would get nearly as many hits.
I go to the Times several times a day, ordinarily, to follow up on articles which I first see referred to elsewhere. Needless to say, that doesn’t mean I approve of those articles.
It has been many years since I went directly to the Times to read whatever they had posted, and I didn’t do it often then. And it’s been many more years since I subscribed to the Times in my mailbox.
Perhaps I should add that I have an excellent ad filter, AdMuncher, so I never see ads on any of these sites. I warmly recommend it for nearly complete freedom from banner ads as well as popups. I don’t think I’m the kind of visitor they like.
Since the NYT published Homeland security’s perfectly legal monitoring of financial transactions, I’ve refused to go to their site. I’ll read the partial articles here, but they’re dead to me.
Granted, given a chance, they’re far from the only paper in the country that will work to undermine our country, but they’re guilty as charged.
Actually, without Drudge, FR, and similar sites, I doubt whether the NY Times would get nearly as many hits.
I don’t care whats written there I never clink on the link for nyt