News from the planet Xngrp!

God bless the NYT for sticking with its "holy mission"

One of us needs euthanizing

U.S. News & World Report contributing editor John Aloysius Farrell is today's example.   “ This is why I love the New York Times. Last week, as its stock dipped toward the price of a Sunday paper and the company slashed its dividend, it was reported that Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, 28, the son of the publisher, was returning to New York to go to work at the mother ship. In my years of employment at the Boston Globe, you see, I accumulated a modest amount of Times company stock via an employee purchase program. Now, it is true that I sometimes feel like an Enron worker, watching my shares tank and wondering if someday I'll be seeing the current Times management take a perp walk in mid-Manhattan. But, mostly, I keep faith in the dream. That somehow, sometime, amid the millions of screamy opinions, nutty rumors, and mistruths that mar the Internet, a few stout-hearted journalistic entities, like the Times, will continue to invest in excellence, strive for truth, and so win an audience, and advertisers, and investors. ” I didn't make one word of this up.