‘Gray Lady Down,' Do not resuscitate

The New York Times On a Roll “... the Don Drapers of the Democratic Party”

“ Most recently, the paper’s antagonism and mischaracterizations of the Tea Party movement contributed to the midterm “shellacking” of the Democratic Party. If it can be said, as I did in a piece for Real Clear Politics, that the Obama administration outsourced  health-care reform to an out-of-touch Congress, it could also be said that it outsourced its broader public relations effort to the Times, as well as MSNBC and Comedy Central — the Don Drapers of the Democratic Party, if you will. -  Ten questions with ‘Gray Lady Down’ author William McGowan  In observing that "For better or worse, the Times is still central to our policy debates, our national conversation and whatever common culture we have left," McGowan, almost as an aside, highlights the paper's central role in the Balkanization of this Republic.  The paper deserves execution.