How did this slip through?
I don’t get why in the same sentence it’s SENATOR Clinton and MS Palin - but not Governor Palin. Every article has her as Ms Palin - not Mrs. OR Gov.
Bugs me...
Between this one and the new frontpage article that’s going to be on the Monday morning edition...
Trying to disprove that they are biased????
>>>David Carr seems to get it...somewhat.
How did this slip through?<<<
I’m a former newspaperman. In fact, I worked in Wasilla when Sarah Palin was on the city council. I quit in disgust because of the unrelenting leftist politics... but that’s another post. Here’s my response to the idea that David Carr gets it.
Newspapers are, at their core, businesses. They need readers to stay alive. For the past 15 years, the print media has been dying of anemia as readers slowly drain away and move to other sources of news. The Times is a husk of what it used to be when I read it religiously back in the early 1970s, and they know it, and many publishers, editors, and reporters already know that the reason readers are leaving stems from the notion of “advocacy journalism,” which almost always means “leftwing advocacy.”
Since most of us aren’t leftists, readers get bored, disinterested, disgusted, or supremely pissed off. They’re looking at Limbaugh and O’Reilly and Drudge and wondering how they can do it, too.
Eventually, they will either adapt or die. Many will be unwilling to give up their leftist beliefs, and those papers will go the way of poetry readings and the village crier. Some will gain of glimmer of understanding and start opening their newsrooms to journalists who reflect their readers.
My frank assessment of the Times is it is too late to provide the token conservative viewpoint and hope for increased readership. Too many readers have been burned too many times. Palin, though, for the left, must feel like being dragged through the gauntlet.
This moment in our nation’s history feels to me like the watershed moment when the left is finally going to pop like the empty balloon it is. The popping noise will probably sound more like a fart, though. Stink bad, too. LOL
I think this is new policy. NYT’s revenues are down. They have to be totally stupid not to see the wave of backlash coming at the media. Maybe even they have said, if you can’t beat them, join them.
Actually, the WSJ article didn't mention marathons. That came from the FR thread Sarah Palin runs Marathon with a blazing time of 3:59:36.
In the '60 I was "fortunate" enough to serve in the US Army with a young man from New York City named Eddie Baldwin. Eddie was the most NY-centric individual I have ever met. Nice enough personally, but fatally naive. As far as Eddie knew, a special branch of the NYC utilities crew put the sun away somewhere at about sundown in NYC only bring it back out, and hang in the Eastern sky for another day of providing light and warmth for him and his friends. I had him thoroughly convinced that we still had Indian uprisings to deal with in the West.
Our intrepid correspondent, David Carr, displays a similar lack of understanding of how things are to the west of his stompin' grounds.
Palin ought to steal the line uttered by the former Dem. gov. of Texas, Ann Richards.
Talking about the ability of women to compete in the workplace, she said, “Y’all remember that famous dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. She did all that fabulous dancing while going backward in 4 inch heels.”
The “MEE-de-ah” and the dRATs were taken to the wood shed.
I am, am not, am, am not, am, am not a Muslim and ‘plugs’
are done.
Thank you Gov Sarah Palin - you've reorganized our community
still uses “Ms.”
feminist insult to palin.
(RATHER than “Mrs.” or “Governor”, it is akin to Mr. Bush vs President Bush)
the NYT can never ever be trusted.