• It's a Wonderful Life, You Beautiful Old Dead-Tree Edition of the New York Times

  Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 8:59 AM | By Melinda Henneberger
  
  
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  That Atlantic piece on the imminent demise of the New York Times as sheets you can cram into your oversized purse is really haunting me: How would Sundays ever be the same? While our kids are receiving religious instruction they can't remember the gist of 10 minutes later, would we have to lug our laptops to the corner coffee shop in order to carry on interrupting each other's reading by calling out snippets of stuff from the Times that the other is not quite as interested in? (Him: They want to drive Israel into the sea! Me: Natasha Richardson is all wrong for Desiree Armfeldt. Him: They want to wipe them off the map! Me: Oh yay, Dahlia has an op-ed. Him: They have a right to defend themselves! Me: And look at this ad for a speakers' series comprised entirely of people you would pay big bucks not to have to listen to.) Government cannot bail out its watchdog, I know, but I wish advertisers would.
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