you get them in the UK, but they don't have this deadly serious capital-J journalism tone.
― caek, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i think times just gets the most shit on ilx becuase its the only paper most of us read
― fleetwood (max), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
and yeah the chron does it like crazy, but it also doesn't have a great reputation anymore. the nyt is still taken seriously, but if they don't put a lid on this stuff, it's gonna hurt their rep in the long term. this is the 2nd most read article on nyt.com.
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the 2nd most read article on nyt.com.
You realize this is why they keep publishing them, right?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
right, well if the nyt wants to aim for page hits above uh, fact-based articles, they can do a lot better than this
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
they're usually spottable insofar as their tone's just weaselly and anecdotal and question-filled, like "could these uncertain indicators and observations maybe suggest that possibly X? Bob Abernathy thinks so, though he admits that statistics are vague; here is an interesting story about some guy that does X and says all his friends do too"
― nabisco, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
(the Heffernan absolutely does that, but I've always felt like a magazine column is the main spot that's acceptable)
― nabisco, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
in the print copy, it's pretty obv that there's a difference between the magazine and the newspaper, but the website doesn't particularly highlight that difference. I mean, it says 'magazine' on top, but I imagine 50% of the people who read this don't even know what the nyt magazine refers to.
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
but I imagine 50% of the people who read this don't even know what the nyt magazine refers to.
You don't?
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.xtcian.com/RonJodiIan2VAWed(bl).jpg
The walls between realities must be getting thin, bowtie guy is clearly alt-world Greg Kinnear.
― brookedel, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ladies and gentlemen
In her debut column, Virginia Heffernan writes about a series that explores both coal-mining narratives and reality TV.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/mining-reality/
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome Back Virginia! A wonderful writer that truly understands the digital culture as well as the pop one, i followed 'Screens' & 'The Medium' , and was pleased to see your pic and news of this 'debut' column. Your voice has been missed in it's own space.
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Perhaps the paywall went up so these people, including commenters, could be more readily isolated and contained.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this seems vaguely relevant here
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/william-duncan-state-school-bans-children-from-rolling-up-sleeves-on-jumpers/story-e6frfhk6-1226107452535
― Who? Well, I've never heard of Mogwai. (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
amazing picture with that story
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link