The NYT has for ten years punted on this "internet" thing and there's little reason to believe they'll figure out what to do now. Fortunately the Huffington Post is not their replacement.
Which is increasingly the only thing holding the NYT together. When I first started reading the op-eds I thought most of them were so wretched that I almost emailed the editors asking if they wanted someone to join the team.
I didn't realise that you had to be Very Very Serious before you were allowed to say spectacularly stupid, wrong things on the record in public - I thought anyone could do it.
Also, this kind of nonsense:
The Minimalist - The Latest Must-Haves for the Pantry - NYTimes.com
PERHAPS, like me, you have this romantic notion of shopping daily -- maybe even a mental vision of yourself making the rounds, wicker basket in hand, of your little Shropshire or Provençal or Tuscan village. The reality, of course, is that few of us provision our kitchens or cook exclusively with ultra-fresh ingredients, especially in winter, when there simply are no ultra-fresh ingredients.
has more than a whiff of Bastille Day about it, considering.
