The emptiness of the New York Times

The grey old lady of US journalism the fame ily owned 'New York Times' is raising its daily price to us$ 1,50. It ain't worth it. The daily edition is anorexically thin...and the news is stale or fluff on topics foreign or domestic. Advertising revenue is down, and so is readership, and little wonder, the NYT has grown long in the tooth. Occasionally, a good piece catches the eye, and the news which makes Herr Bush furious is buried inside or not at all. The financial pages are vanilla and chocolate pudding. The arts pages are dull. The Sunday edition now selling at the price of us$4,00 in New York, is vacuous and can be read in 10 minutes on a good day. The book review section is ho hum, and the Sunday magazine is boring to a high degree. La famille Salzburger has lost its compass, and is in lockstep with other newspapers of note in the US, be it the Murdoch Wall Street Journal, the Zell Chicago Tribune, or the Los Angeles Times, and subject to the whimsy of bean counters who are twists when it comes to journalism and what makes news. So the NYT will decline since it has lost the confidence of the reading public...or those who can read still.