Don't Mess With my New York Times
I read this week that the New York Times could possibly trim up to 100 staffers if employees don't take enough buy-outs. I am hardly angry at the Times' management. They are doing what they have to do, and from what I've read, none of the executives there want to resort to layoffs. Why not charge readers for the online edition? Yes, I would hate it - but not as much as I'd hate losing the quality of reporting I get from the Times. We are living in a frighteningly ignorant society, one in which the blog-du-jour (this one included!) is being gobbled up in the name of "news." Young people today are in danger of confusing the difference between a Pulitzer Prize-level type report such as is currently running by David Rohde in the Times (detailing his account being held by the Taliban) and the run-of-the-mill posting on Huffington. Now, I have nothing against the Huffington Report - it's valuable. And many of the writers who post there are fine scribes. Yet comp