The High-Brow New York Times?
As I write, here are some of the most important and serious news stories our nation and world face: (i) As the Los Angeles Times has broken, the Obama administration awarded a $433 million, no-bid contract to a top political donor to develop a drug for small pox. (ii) The scandal at Penn State is so significant that Moody's has dropped Penn State's bond rating. And (iii) Newt Gingrich seems to have emerged as the main challenger to Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee for president. Indeed, these are the top stories listed on the Drudge Report, the site the left often dismisses as a "gossip site."
Meanwhile, on the front page of the New York Times web site, the top-center article is one about a man who dresses in drag and plays Judy Garland in an off-Broadway cabaret.
This is the newspaper that liberals call "scholarly," "high-brow," and full of "gravitas."
Perhaps related, over the last two years, while the S&P 500 has increased about 20%, the stock price of the New York Times company has decreased about 20%.
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Aug '10
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
Doncha geddit? A man who dresses up as Judy Garland is high-brow.
The topics you bring up? Middle-brow, all the way.
NYT is too high-brow to be middle-brow.
Edited on Nov 12, 2011 at 8:29amMay '10
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
You think the New York Times is bad, you should try reading The San Francisco Chronicle sometime.
On second thought, no, you shouldn't. Don't bother.
Aug '10
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
Midget Faded Rattlesnake:
NYT is too high-brow to be middle-brow.
Rereading my comment, I've come to the conclusion that hyphens are middlebrow.
It should read:
"NYT is too highbrow to be middlebrow."
Jun '10
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
Wait. Don't you all know that only smart people read the NYT? High-brow. QED
Mar '11
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
Information technology is killing the archaic ink and paper medium, and the papers themselves are doing their best to help. A newspaper was once a valued enterprise in a healthy society, but petty people have used their positions to promote their own political and personal agendas. So today as they die in a vaudevillian third act I smirk as the high-brow intellectuals try to conjure answers for their demise.
Edited on Nov 12, 2011 at 11:26amMay '10
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
The NYT is surviving off the value of it's building. I won't mind raising a glass when they finally die a deserved death.
There are two main reasons US society is in such trouble: it's the failure of our 1st Amendment protected media to be fair and honest, and the overpriced anointed in academia spending it's time indoctrinating instead of educating. Only when they are cleansed shall the US truly turn itself around.
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
As goes New York, so goes Pravda-on-the-Hudson.
Jul '10
Re: The High-Brow New York Times?
I don't know. Is Peter "high-brow[?]" I mean, the nyt appears to be His favorite source.