Centerfield

Some New York Times Comments

Jarvis posted an interesting analysis of the TimeSelect death.

You know, I've always had a bad relationship with the NYT. The Profesora likes it, but not me. When I first started understanding newspapers, I found the NYT arrogant, and thought my hometown paper of the time (the Washington Post) was longer on facts.

When papers went on the web, washingtonpost.com was there pretty early. They were in the second generation, and had it just right. They still do, keeping up with innovations like blogs, interesting chats, and video. They have pointers to important speeches and reports online. They've never forgotten a subscription identity I've given them.

NYT has been the awkward sister, on the web. For years, all the news fit to print on the Web involved either computers or labor unions. And NYT requires cookies. And it was often hard to read. And, for me, it's still not as good as wapo or the Economist, much less blogs.