Media

Paper of Record, My Ass

Y'know, the nytimes.com doesn't have all of the print edition. Makes you wonder what's missing from the microfiche, doesn't it?

There are three articles I'd like to cite from the Westchester section — which recently confused the Great Swamp, in Dutchess and Putnam, as being somewhat more southerly than it is — but it's not there.

Well, at least the Week in Review is, in which Barack Obama (hi, Rick) is mentioned many times. For some reason they keep harping on his pigmentation issues. The voters look past that, but it's oh-so-puzzling, right?

But perhaps my favorite line was from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who wrote

We can't talk about the choices people have without talking about the choices people make.

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categories: Media, Politics