Yep, is all I can say to Bill's comment below. Even beyond what you might think a newspaper *shld* do in some aspirational or principled sense this is just flawed business strategy in the third decade of the 21st century. There are tops 4 opens lanes for national newspapers in the sense ...
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Bill Kristol
1. I’d like to know how much some PR or ad firm got paid to come up with so pathetic a “mission statement.”
2. To take it more seriously than it deserves for just a second:
“Storytelling” !
It’s a newspaper (or was), not a YA fiction publisher!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
2. To take it more seriously than it deserves for just a second:
“Storytelling” !
It’s a newspaper (or was), not a YA fiction publisher!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
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Long live the telling of stories, which most definitely is NOT the same as independent news journalism.
Imagine the surprise in MSM C-suites when it turns out that all along, the secret to finding the El Dorado of subscriber/viewer gold known as "the Fox audience" they've sought these 30 long years was "oligarchist propaganda organ."
Well, maybe that USED to be true. Not so sure in the era of Trump, or what will some day be known historically as "the dork ages".
Nothing wrong with making the aspiration of being a national paper front and center.
But WTF with "Storytelling"??
#WHAT4thEstate
Research the facts and stick to them. We’re supposed to be adults and should be able to draw our own conclusions.
Anything else is pandering. Implement the “Grey Lady “public ombudsman to correct reporting errors