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| The Bonfire of the Inanities |
| 2014-05-19 |
| Washington Free Beacon's take on the silliness that is American liberalism and its declining rag, the New York Times. An excerpt: What makes the story so enjoyable, on the most superficial level, is its lurid combination of identity politics--Abramson was the first female editor of the Times, and Baquet is its first African-American editor--and liberal hypocrisy. Equal pay has been one of the rallying cries of the American left, a category that very much includes the New York Times, and the possibility of sexism at the paper is rich indeed. But I have to say I am less interested in equal wages, in comparable worth, and in what the New Yorker calls the "inescapably gendered aspect" of the Times' latest scandal than I am in how that scandal confirms one of my pet theories. The theory is this: The men and women who own and operate and produce every day the world's most important newspaper are basically children. You should read the whole thing. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 "Those who think they run things read the New York Times. Those who read the Wall Street Journal actually do." |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-19 23:45 |
| #1 The men and women who own and operate and produce every day the world's most important newspaper are basically children. The world's "most important newspaper" is questionable. Maybe in NYC. In flyover country, the NYTs is bird cage liner--if even that. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-05-19 14:58 |