NY Times: The Elephant Graveyard Of Journalism

Welcome to the New York Times, where worn out and mostly worthless journalists go to die where no can can find them.

It's not even worth discussing, really. It's too late and the paper will never turn itself around under Pinch. And he's built up such a team of liberal hacks underneath him, it would now take a generation to ferret them out. They don't have that much time.

Unfortunately, there's one quality they don't share with elephants. Apparently the Times does forget. Between his piece itself and Michelle's pile on, Hoyt should be embarrassed at his extremely weak rationalizations to hide the truth. The paper is biased, out of touch with the times we are in and disingenuous. No newspaper could survive all of that. And the Times certainly isn't too big to fail.

Maybe Murdoch will scoop it up in a fire sale just for the satisfaction..

Comments

[Ran]

Feh... I'll keep my subscription to WSJ. I would much rather Lord Black find a way to seize the old Hag, and post Mark Steyn as it's editor in chief. THAT would be a newspaper, if it could earn profits.

Then again, the finest paper I had ever read, the New York Sun, found it impossible to survive as a broadsheet - and that had Black's investment and regular articles and reporting by Mark Steyn, RET, Eli Lake... Lipsky and Stoll were marvelous at the helm.

The good news is here:

http://www.nysun.com/

[Lala]

I liked the Sun too. I think the problem was that they didn't advertise themselves. I would mention the Sun to people and they would say they never heard of it. Also, delivery to newsstands was erratic, sometimes they had it, sometimes not.

[Dennis D]

I hope the Times survives until my puppy is housebroken. He loves his cage lined with the NY Times .

[daddy]

Your remember how in the old days a Newspaper might re-publish old columns from long-gone storied columnists like Herb Caen or Mike Royko in order to attract new eyeballs to a paper and retain old readers.

Well imagine it's the year 2025, and (even tougher) imagine that The New York Times still exists. Then imagine an editor trying to comb through columns by Krugman, Modo, Frank Rich, "Enlightened Autocracy Friedman," or "Creased Trousers Brooksie" looking for which one to re-publish to improve readership.

Man, just thinking about the poor sap who's going to wind up with that job makes the future seem "Blade Runner" ugly.

[Joseph Brown]

Hey, you better hope the NYT doesn't fail. If the greenies have their way and are able to convince Zerobama, soft tp has to go, well.....Get my drift?