A return to an old rag

[bronwynrh]

In 1.5- and 2- minute increments, I'm perusing the Sunday NYT. The folks whose house I'm watching didn't stop their paper delivery, so there's a growing stack of blue-clad papers on the floor by the door.

I sort of read one of them the other day, but today I couldn't pass up the Sunday Times.

See, I used to take the Sunday Times - not the whole week, I couldn't afford the subscription or the time to read it - I enjoyed reading news from such obscure places as Africa and Southeast Asia. Then the war-but-not-war happened and something seemed to change. Everyone was polarized (they still are) and my newspaper was taking sides and letting their opinion spill out all over the paper. The editorial page was just another page with slightly less formal language.

I want news. I'll make my own opinions, thank you.

So I stopped taking the Sunday NYT, explaining to the woman who took my cancel order that I was displeased with the editorial bias of the paper. Not that there was bias in the reporting, but there was bias in the headlining. That's an editor's realm, not a reporter's, so I didn't blame the reporting.

Anyway, here I am reading the paper again, and it's made me laugh several times. It's also deepened my understanding of things I already knew about from my Internet world news-hunting.

I like the laughs, and I like the Jon Stewart send-up. I especially liked the way the paper poked fun at both the DNC and the pathetic media coverage of same.

If a tree falls in the forest while nearly every camera crew, news reporter, and talking head in the Western Hemisphere is inside the FleetCenter in Boston, does it make a sound?
Of course it does -- even if we do not get to see the tree's heartbreaking fall in slo-mo a few hundred times on MSNBC and CNN, or hear its collapse cited by Michael Moore as proof of the bankruptcy of the Bush administration's environmental policies, or watch Bill O'Reilly condemn the tree's failure to remain standing as the kind of weakness that emboldens our nation's enemies.
From William Falk's "That was the week that wasn't" in the Aug. 1, 2004 Sunday NYT.

Back to the data analysis. I've just used way more than my 2-minute limit.

Comments

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

I like the laughs, and I like the Jon Stewart send-up. I especially liked the way the paper poked fun at both the DNC and the pathetic media coverage of same.
I almost wet my drawers watching Jon Stewart do this on cable TV. OMG...so funny the way he made fun of the "My father was a poor immigrant mine worker" theme. Too dayem funny!

[bramey.livejournal.com]

I was laughing out loud, too. Very loud. Wonder if the neighbors heard me?

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

Gil was outdoors and he heard me. Good to jiggle the innards every now and again. :)