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NYT Editorial: Regime Change by AlQ = Healthy Democracy

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Posted by .com 2004-03-17 8:48:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Essay question (15 pts) -- Compare the above with the Washington Post's editorial of the same date discussing the Spanish election. Which of these great liberal newspapers is written and edited by mature adult human beings? Support your conclusion.

Posted by Mike 2004-3-17 9:01:59 AM|| 2004-3-17 9:01:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike: the contrast between the WaPo and the NYT has been striking for years. It goes back even before 9/11. The WaPo editorial line is basically New Democrat and Clintonian. The NYT under Raines was bitterly anti-Clintonian, FROM THE LEFT. IN particular Raines waged a long and bitter war against welfare reform. Apparently the current Sulzberger-in-charge goes in for this point of view also. While the Grahams at the WaPo remain loyal to their Kennedy era/ New Frontier version of liberalism.

You could also say its different audiences. The NYT target audience is a certain sort of Upper West Side liberal, with CPUSA or at least fellow traveler background, who works in the culture industries, and for whom politics is largely a way of snubbing competing, less cultured, elites. WaPo's target audience, Dems and Republicans alike, is people who actually have to deal with policy on a day to day basis, and who have to be deal with reality, both international reality and US domestic political reality.

Typical WaPo reader - busy hammering out a fishing agreement with France. Typical NYT reader - has a house on the Riviera in France.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-17 9:48:00 AM|| 2004-3-17 9:48:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 LH,
this may have been a good analysis some time ago but have you seen the NYTimes weather section lately. Its got the colors of the USA weather map and actual precip amount. Maybe the red diaper babies have a little weathergeek in them.

Posted by mhw 2004-3-17 10:26:23 AM|| 2004-3-17 10:26:23 AM|| Front Page Top

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