Comments on: Wal-Mart Health Plan: New York Times vs. New York Times http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/wal-mart_health_plan_new_york_times_vs_new_york_times/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:27:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: spencer http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/wal-mart_health_plan_new_york_times_vs_new_york_times/comment-page-1/#comment-74762 spencer Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:50:44 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13797#comment-74762 Very good article until the latst paragraph. Why do you want the reporter that covers WMT to be ignorant about the finer details of the firms policies? Would you want the reporters that cover the Redskins to only have some vague knowledge about the team ? Very good article until the latst paragraph.

Why do you want the reporter that covers WMT to be ignorant about the finer details of the firms policies? Would you want the reporters that cover the Redskins to only have some vague knowledge about the team ?

]]> By: James Joyner http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/wal-mart_health_plan_new_york_times_vs_new_york_times/comment-page-1/#comment-74747 James Joyner Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:35:34 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13797#comment-74747 Herb: I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek there. It's how the NYT sees itself and how media critics think of it. Frankly, while I think it's a very good paper, I think WaPo and even the Christian Science Monitor are better national papers at this point. Still, the NYT is the newspaperman's newspaper. Because of the NYT Index, it's also the ones historians and other academics tend to cite years down the line. Herb: I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek there. It's how the NYT sees itself and how media critics think of it. Frankly, while I think it's a very good paper, I think WaPo and even the Christian Science Monitor are better national papers at this point.

Still, the NYT is the newspaperman's newspaper. Because of the NYT Index, it's also the ones historians and other academics tend to cite years down the line.

]]> By: Herb http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/wal-mart_health_plan_new_york_times_vs_new_york_times/comment-page-1/#comment-74744 Herb Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:15:11 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13797#comment-74744 James: "Americas newspapre of record, the NYT" ? I'm from the midwest and I never see that rag around here and never have seen anyone around here reading it. While it may be the rag of the eastern seaboard that seems to love the extreme liberal side of every newsworthy event, it's sure not welcomed here. Midwestern folks have "family values" and a sense of fairness and patroitrism that escapes all those at the NYT. James:

"Americas newspapre of record, the NYT" ?

I'm from the midwest and I never see that rag around here and never have seen anyone around here reading it. While it may be the rag of the eastern seaboard that seems to love the extreme liberal side of every newsworthy event, it's sure not welcomed here. Midwestern folks have "family values" and a sense of fairness and patroitrism that escapes all those at the NYT.

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