- Pravda On The Hudson

Jonah Goldberg:

Here's the AP story in The New York Times (via the web briefing) on the Census Bureau's decision to drop its association with ACORN. The story doesn't mention the prostitution videos from last week (and more are coming). How does a reporter and/or editor do that? Read the whole thing, the silences are staggering. It's Pravdaesque.


Me:

Jonah Goldberg is a journalist, so part of him deep down is surprised by this lack of ethics on the part of the Times. I'm not a journalist, so I'm not as taken aback.

The New York Times has been a laughingstock as a news source for years. No one in the business takes Paul Krugman seriously, and last week Thomas Friedman was hoping for the day when we could have a nice efficient totalitarian dictator. They think they're mainstream but they're really sealed in a bubble...just like Pravda.

And now it's probably only going to get worse. The publishers are going to figure out that they would be better off catering to just the upper west side than trying to compete for the whole market. And when they do, every story will have the same 'lack of content' and clear political direction this one.