<p>Many folks here like to carelessly sling charges of “cronyism” with regard to the Bush administration. I guess you can’t blame them, if they rely on the NYT for their news analysis. Byron Calame has been doing yeoman’s work recently, sweeping up after the editorial page stars. </p>
<p>Most world leaders read the Times or a synopse of it. The New York Times does make mistakes as any human institution will from time to time. </p>
<p>I doubt there is a Governor in the Northeast who doesn’t have the Times delivered to their capitol office. I expect the Senate and House Leadership get it delivered to their offices also.</p>
<p>I heard the President canceled his subscription after failing to find the funny section two days in a row.</p>
<p>Certainly the NYT is a paper of record. I take it and cross-check vs. the Los Angeles Times. There you have it. In a pinch, I’ll triple-check vs. The New Yorker.</p>
<p>What…you think I should trust Faux News or The Washington Times?</p>
<p>I am a “daughter” of the Washington Post. My parents met while working at the paper, and my father spent his entire career there. My loyalty knows no bounds. But… when I want the in-depth story, I go to the New York Times.</p>
<p>Uh, Driver - Brown <strong>was</strong> a crony of Allbaugh. Whether they were college roommates or not is irrelevant - Allbaugh may have had several roommates. What is relevant is that Brown’s only apparent “qualification” for his job was that he was a friend of his predecessor Joe Allbaugh, who’s only qualification was that he worked for the Bush campaign. Neither of them had any experience or credentials in disaster relief or preparedness. That’s “cronyism.” There’s no point in denying it - the Bush administration is rotten with it. Loyalty comes first, competence is unimportant.</p>
<p>The “college buddys” story was published in a story about FEMA’s response to Florida hurricanes in September 2004 and never refuted before. The difference between the NYTimes and your boy Rush is that the Times will take the trouble to correct an error of a minor collateral fact.</p>
The latte-sippers marshal forth in high dudgeon. I’m not surprised that is your take on the matter, if you still rely on either the east coast or west coast version of The Times. Here are a few alternate sources from which to get a clue what might actually be going on. From the left: Slate.com <a href=“http://www.slate.com/id/2127288/[/url][quote]Free”>Free at Last
<p>Kluge, you sound just like Dan Rather in his bizarre interview with Marvin Kalb; “The documents were forged, the evidence was shabby, but that doesn’t change the underlying truth of the story as I believe it, gol-dangit.” The point of the commentary by the NYT’s own “public editor” was that the Times has people that play very loose with the facts, and are in fact very reluctant to issue corrections.</p>
back to labeling I see. An award for a most original defense…all the news papers on the east and west coast are wrong…only my select websites (and Rush, the drug lord, Limbaugh) are reliable sources and they think the President and his foot soldiers are keen.</p>
<p>The White House denied for two years that any of their cronies ratted out our own spies. Do you think they lied to you? They let that poor reporter sit in jail, while they went cocktail partying around the capitol.</p>
<p>When the traitor is finally convicted, I hope they sentence him to Cuba.</p>
<p>I"m politically conservative but never go a day without reading the NY Times…sometimes it makes me so mad that I throw it across the room but then go pick it up and read some more. When we left the Northeast for the Southeast I almost had a breakdown when I realised there was no home delivery. Got up at the crack of dawn for 3 years to beat the old folks at the gas station for my copy. Hounded them in NYC til they started delivery. It’s cutting edge, always has been and always will be.</p>
<p>DKE, funny, I get the same feeling when I read RedState.Org. </p>
<p>At home, we get the NYT dropped neatly on our doorstep, co-delivered with the LAT. But on vacation, I do have the habit of getting to the gas station by 8:15am or so to make sure I get the LAT/NYT before they run out around 9:00am or so.</p>
<p>I do miss the Washington Post but the few times I’ve snagged a copy while traveling it hasn’t lived up the golden glow of memory from when it was my daily newspaper when I worked in D.C. It’s a <em>good</em> newspaper but not spectacular. Having traveled around the country, I’ve come to appreciate just how good a paper that the LA Times is and why, in many places, USA TODAY is a reasonable alternative to the local.</p>
That’s it, TheDad. Exactly. Thanks for putting it into words; I think I can sleep in peace now, knowing I’m not being disloyal to my dad’s paper. It just isn’t quite the same anymore, “good” but not the best.</p>