D'artagnan wrote:Ticomaya wrote:Harper wrote:The NYT is a corporate conservative shill. You posting opinions holds no water. I could find lots of people who will agree with me that the Times is corporate and conservative but it is pretty silly to cut and paste opinions. If you want real progressive thought, read The Nation. If you want to argue that NYT is liberal, make your own arguments. Unlike you, I actually read the New York Times. It isn't liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
The Public Editor (ombudsman) of the New York Times posed the question "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?" in his July 25th column, and he answered his own question with,
"Of course it is".
That's a gross oversimplification of what he wrote, as I'm sure you know. That is, if you actually read the article. You did read it, yes?
Of course I read it. And I posted the entire article for your edification. (Please note that if my skin was as thin as Harper's, I'd be accusing you of violating the TOS right about now for daring to suggest such a thing.)
Did YOU read my remark which tried to sum up Mr. Okrent's comments?
Tico wrote:Okrant concludes that the NYT does have a liberal bias in coverage of certain social issues, gay marriage being the example he used. He concludes it's rather obvious, but it's also completely legitimate. The Times' publisher won't call it liberalism, but prefers to call this bias an "urban viewpoint," reflecting its cosmopolitan nature as the hometown newspaper of New York City.
If you have a beef with my use of Mr. Okrent's own words, or if you think his statement was an oversimplification, take it up with him. As it is, he posed the question, and he answered it with a succinct response.