Jill Abramson will have a tougher job than any of her predecessors when she becomes executive editor today of the New York Times, because she is being thrust into completely uncharted territory where she will have to choose between two irreconcilable paths.
Oh! I know what you’re thinking! “That would be a “path” of offering the modern news consumer a product that is both balanced and agenda-free, vs a “path” that furthers liberalism and Democratic party interests.”
Nope.
! “That would be a “path” of offering the modern news consumer a product that is both balanced and agenda-free, vs”
Leopards are incapable of rearranging their spots……
But…. but… she has a puppy!
Surely she will be up to the task.
Bankruptcy iceberg off the port bow! Hard left rudder and get those deck chairs in a circle!!!
” where the editorial payroll tops 1,000 individuals.”
Holy crap that’s a lot of mouths to feed. What if they cut all the useless ones spewing out bizarre political theories not even their own mothers can take seriously? That would save a lot of money while improving the product.
Paraphrasing Dennis Miller:
Long ago the NY Times gave up being the ‘paper of record’. Now they just hold onto a building for foreign acrobats to climb.
No problem. Reverse paywall. You get to not have home delivery of the Times, and you get blocked from all online content – all, including Dowd, Krugman, Rich, Friedman… for a mere $50 a year.
Otherwise, you won’t be left alone.
They are going to be rich beyond their wildest dreams.
I’m torn. I await the collapse of the NYT with malicious, schadenfreudy, hand-rubbing glee; furthermore, Jill Abramson has the most annoying voice and intonation of anyone, ever, in history.
But that’s such a cute puppy! Actually, they should copy National Lampoon (I think it was) and start running “buy the All the News that’s fit to Print or the puppy gets it” on the cover along with pictures of the puppy and a handgun. I think at this point it’s their best bet.
A previous SDA commenter once pointed out that the young Turks of MSM presume that the difference between sh*t and sunshine is the speed at which it travels.
New York Times; The paper of record when puppy training.
Too much competition on the net and most of it doesn’t cost the reader one thin dime. Newspapers are dead. Long live trees!! Lefties should be happy.
The New York Times: The paper of broken record.
“All the News that fits- we print”
But.. But..
What will my parrot read whiles walking around his cage?
He can even quote Al Gore-
“Global Warming”
“Doom on You, Doom on You!”
I fear all he will see now is the bottom of his cage and see that hungry cat watching him could cause a heart attack..
Black Mamba writes:
But that’s such a cute puppy! Actually, they should copy National Lampoon (I think it was) and start running “buy the All the News that’s fit to Print or the puppy gets it” on the cover along with pictures of the puppy and a handgun. I think at this point it’s their best bet.”
Well, that threat would sell more papers than “Buy all the news that’s fit to print or the Abramson broad gets it.”
The NY Times gets free economics advice from their star columnist Paul Krugram.
’nuff said, explains a lot.
A Newsosaur is featured in a a new epic film:
“JURASSIC PAPER” featuring bronotsauruses swallowing down boatloads of cellulose.
Why isn’t “Jurassic Paper” forming oil deposits under high pressure far below the St. Nicholas Church in New York?
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
99% of any new publication is car ads, personals, tripe and more tripe. Why pay a dollar for one cent worth of actual useful information?
The NYT has no useful information, only a coral of hard core leftist and clueless elite trying to prop up the Mulatto in the white house.
sasquatch
You stole my thought.(O:}
I guess balanced news, is not an agenda a liberal will pursue under any cost.
Looks like it is curtains for the Times.
From the article:
at the most well-endowed newsroom in the land, where the editorial payroll tops 1,000 individuals.
And not one fact-checker in the bunch.
If you remember the episode of M*A*S*H where Radar goes to correspondence school and is working on his writing skills… read the Newsosaurus article in Radar’s correspondence school writing voice.
It’s priceless.
The part that struck me was the line about a reader saying that the rest of the content will appear for free on the huff n puff post. Don’t they realize just how one-sided they are? Of course, they will delight in that, saying that “being right isn’t a side” or some such foolishness.
Yes, the Media Is The Message!…
Heh.
What is the environmental impact of chopping down forests to make newsprint that the Times is printed on? Shouldn’t the goverment order an environmental impact study when the pristine environment is raped just to satisfy the greed of the evil capitalists who own the dead-tree media?
Not to be too snarky, but since this is a supposedly professional writer, I couldn’t get past “because she is being thrust into completely uncharted territory where she will have to choose between two irreconcilable paths.”
How can there be paths in a territory that is, by definition, uncharted?
And since when are paths “reconcilable” or “irreconilable” anyway? (“Harry, instead of going to Beaumont, why don’t we head over to Wilson’s Creek? From there we can reconcile I-10 and Highway 288. That should cut about a half an hour off our drive time.”)
Goodness, with writing “skills” like that no wonder “Journalists” are becoming Newsosaurs! This guy constructs metaphors about as well as a Ukranian car factory constructs Trabants.
Actually, Larry, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have paths in uncharted territory. The people who make the paths are not necessarily the same people who make the charts.
But before we go further, no, I don’t like this writing any more than you do. No point arguing over nothing.
You know ebt, I thought the same thing myself, and you are technically right. Daniel Boone followed plenty of Indian trails in his time. I wouldn’t have mentioned the quality of the writing at all except that Newsosaur is supposedly a professional journalist, (or a retired journalist). As such I would expect his/her metaphors to not be as throughly mixed as a Burbon Street Margarita. I’m not the greatest writer (or speller for that matter) on the planet, but if one is writing about the decline of “America’s Newspaper of Record” as someone who is/has been a professonal journalist, one should endeavour to produce quality writing. The fact that professional writer Newsosaur has trouble with metaphor and relies upon cliche tells me more about the state of American Journalisim than the actual article does.