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2009-01-06 Home Front: Culture Wars
NYT: Selling Principles Like A $5 Crack Whore
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Posted by Frank G 2009-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Can't wait to read the books. Pinch has always been a '68er wannabe - Bring down the System, all that crap. Didn't figure he'd kamikaze the family jewels, though.
Posted by mrp 2009-01-06 01:40||   2009-01-06 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 "Selling Principles Like A $5 Crack Whore"

You could have seen this coming when they moved their advertising office to a spot behind a McDonald's dumpster.
Posted by crosspatch 2009-01-06 02:43||   2009-01-06 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 NYT: Selling Principles Like A $5 Crack Whore

Not really. Crack whores still have some principles left to sell, and even then there are some things even a crack whore wouldn't do.
Posted by gorb 2009-01-06 03:25||   2009-01-06 03:25|| Front Page Top

#4 As late as the early 1970's, front page ads were commonplace in major newspapers in most large cities. But in those days, we hadn't yet felt the full effects of the class of '68, and capitalism was not perceived of as being 'crass' by most folks. Ads were simply a way of making money. There's nothing wrong with advertising anywhere a paper wants, AFAIC.

Still, imagine the horror of the millions who have convinced themselves that reading 'the Times' every day makes them automatic smart people, better than the rest of us, and above all that evil capitalism. Their consternation is my joy.
Posted by no mo uro 2009-01-06 06:16||   2009-01-06 06:16|| Front Page Top

#5 What's next? Pie charts?!

/sniffy NYT reader
Posted by eLarson 2009-01-06 07:46||   2009-01-06 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 More ads = less propaganda.
Posted by ed 2009-01-06 08:09||   2009-01-06 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing new here. The NYT hasn't had principles since the 50's.
Posted by Israel 2009-01-06 09:43||   2009-01-06 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 "The NYT hasn't had principles since the 50's"...the 1850's!
Posted by AlanC 2009-01-06 09:52||   2009-01-06 09:52|| Front Page Top

#9 I really think they need to put the astrology back on the front page...at least it's more objective than their so-called feature stories.
Posted by hammerhead 2009-01-06 09:57||   2009-01-06 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Ad specials for the fish market.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-06 10:25||   2009-01-06 10:25|| Front Page Top

#11 But they do run uncorroborated torture stories.

An Ex-Detainee of the U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal
Posted by Beavis 2009-01-06 10:41||   2009-01-06 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Alas, a $5.00 crack whore would not publish classified information about the most effective antiterrorism tactics used since 9/11.

When they published those articles which essentially compromised our ability to successfully monitor and track terrorists, I decided they were worse than Al-Jazerrya...at least AJ makes no bones about their bias.

They cloak themselves in the thin disguise of objective journalism and all they are is a cover to cover op-ed piece with very little balance.

Even their sports writers bash GWB!!! I saw a piece in the "elegant living by diletants" section of the Rag and it was a wall to wall piece of liberal nonsense and anti Republican crap.

The Yellow Press of the 1890's has nothing on the morons and malcontents that "write" for the times....

I wouldn't even wrap my garbage in that waste of newsprint.
Posted by James Carville 2009-01-06 10:50||   2009-01-06 10:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Unlike the Times, most crack whores turn a profit...
Posted by tu3031 2009-01-06 12:09||   2009-01-06 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 All told, the crack whore has more market appeal.
Posted by Iblis 2009-01-06 12:10||   2009-01-06 12:10|| Front Page Top

#15 If we're lucky, maybe Pinchy had all his private monies with his friend Madoff. If so, he's flatter than a dried out cow pattie.
Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-01-06 12:41||   2009-01-06 12:41|| Front Page Top

#16 #'s 13, 14 and 15 nail it perfectly.
Posted by WolfDog 2009-01-06 16:42||   2009-01-06 16:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Don't you have to have principles in order to sell them?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-01-06 18:18|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2009-01-06 18:18|| Front Page Top

#18 think short sale, Barb
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-01-06 18:57||   2009-01-06 18:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Think short hairs, Frank.

Which hopefully the economy has the NYSlimes by....
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-01-06 20:03|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2009-01-06 20:03|| Front Page Top

#20 Don't worry the Donks will bail them out as part of Obama's multi-trillion dollar "stimulus".
Posted by DMFD 2009-01-06 20:23||   2009-01-06 20:23|| Front Page Top

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