[Obadiah]

Okay, let me get this straight. Raines wants news to be more "lyrical" and more like story telling, and is "critical of the consumer approach to journalism", correct?

So then, Raines doesn't want consumers to drive what journalists write, he wants journalists to tell everyone STORIES! Well, that certainly seems to be what the NYTimes is all about. Don't give the consumers the news they want, pass along a bunch of leftist stories and package that as news!

[Enchante]

more "lyrical" and more like story telling

Fraudsters like Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Mary Mapes and Dan Blather, et al are also much enamored of the "lyrical" approach to news - they tell any story they want, without regard to facts. It's called FICTION, Mr. Raines. This charlatan is one of many self-styled "journalists" who is really a failed novelist - people like Raines would much rather be writing novels, but they lack the talent so they fill the news pages with their lib-leftist fantasies and call it "journalism" - that's exactly how we got Glass, Blair, Mapes, Rather, and Raines.