The internet is changing the game, Jayson Blair hasn’t helped your reputation any, you’re laying off staff, and even Craig Ferguson tears into you at the 2008 White House Correspondence Dinner (begins at 2:40):
Maybe they’re laughing at you…not with you.
To the Times’ credit, it was easy for a large publication to take a walk down diversity lane, perhaps slowly realizing it’s the circular driveway in front of cultural relativity castle. Those were heady times and doing what everybody else was doing was easy…though maybe not the best long-term business strategy…
The Times’ mission includes covering politics, foreign affairs, economics, war and the difficult moral decisions leaders make, but they seem to be a little too invested in global warming and the easy moralism of diversity and gender equality to always make them well. Their coverage of the arts is almost fetishistic.
So is this just a print media problem at the Times, or is it something more?
