Either the New York Times, for all of its vaunted excellence in the field of journalism, really is just a bunch of bumbling Barney Fifes who stumble into controversies completely obliviously…
…or they are as excellent as their, er, press claims they are, and they knew full well what they were doing when they put this…
…”Paul Ryan, Son of Satan”, on their front page.
Me? I have faith in the NYTimes’ vaunted intelligence. Just like Newsweak’s “Crazy Michele Bachmann” cover last year, they knew exactly what they were doing, and the media is acting as Barack Obama’s Praetorian Guard.
Additional Question: Wonder if this’ll make it on NPR’s “On The Media” this weekend?
Additional Observation: The most blatantly cheerleader-y coverage of the convention for the Democrats this year was NPR. They were more baldfaced about it than I’ve ever heard.
That’s funny. Angryclown got the print version yesterday and didn’t think it looked Satan-y. Maybe it’s the backlighting from the computer. But yeah, that sure looks pretty 666.
Yeah, the cropping of the picture is either retarded or meaningful. It’s the NYT, so either explanation works.
Angryclown got the print version yesterday
So they still have at least one subscriber to the print edition.
Is Krugman still railing against the American traditions of freedom and enterprise? Has Friedman figured out how to construct a proper metaphor?
Got it at the newstand, Blofeld.
And I guess he didn’t actually read it since he didn’t answer the other questions.
But he did like the pictures.