Tag Archives: New York Times

New York Magazine reports that the New York Times may be days away from announcing their return to a “metered” online subscription system in which readers must pay to read more than a certain number of articles per day. The choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the …

The New York Times editorial board came out swinging this morning in reaction to the SCOTUS ban on live cameras in the courtroom at Perry vs. Schwarzenegger. The antipathy of some justices to televising Supreme Court arguments is as well known as it is wrongheaded. But the court’s stance against allowing unobtrusive C-Spanlike coverage of its own proceedings should not …

My loyal companion Aaron tips us to a piece in the New York Times titled A Letter From London, in which an Englishman says that we’re really not so bad. It’s worth the entire read, but here’s a short excerpt: When I finally got to America myself, I found that not only were the natives friendly and hospitable, they were …

Following up their overdue but welcome entry into Uganda’s “kill gays” bill outrage, the New York Times yesterday called out the involved American evangelicals in an editorial called Hate Begets Hate. The government’s venom is chilling: “Homosexuals can forget about human rights,” James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently. What …

Embiggen or view in full-screen here. Out of 120 items recounting memorable moments of the decade, no mention of marriage equality, Prop 8, or LGBT rights at all. The one gay-ish item is a reference to Brokeback Mountain. Maybe there are two gay-related items, they do mention Lady Gaga.

The New York Times says that instead of same-sex marriage, a better barometer of public opinion on homosexuality is the decade’s avalanche of openly gay elected officials. Currently there are at least 445 gays and lesbians holding office, an increase of almost 200 in the last eight years. Some political scientists say the rise in openly gay candidates’ winning public …

“Gay-marry” is one of the New York Times’ buzzwords of 2009. Some of the other words on the list: birther, Tenther, Octomom, Tea Party, Cash For Clunkers, I’ma let you finish, mini-Madoff, netbook.

The Sword (NSFW) points us to this ad presently on the Arts section homepage of the New York Times. Not saying anything more about it, other than “Hole-y cow!”

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former Nixon White House speechwriter William Safire died this weekend at age 79. A columnist for the New York Times for more than 30 years, Safire won the 1978 Pulitzer prize for his writings on a now obscure scandal involving an appointee of President Jimmy Carter. He was on the Pulitzer board from 1995 to 2004. …

According to the New York Times, men with guts are suddenly in fashion. Only they’re no longer “beer bellies” or a “paunch,” they’re called a “Ralph Kramden.” Too pronounced to be blamed on the slouchy cut of a T-shirt, too modest in size to be termed a proper beer gut, developed too young to come under the heading of a …

$3.45/week for the entire New York Times downloaded daily to your laptop “in seconds.” That’s a lot more than the proposed $5/month to read the Times online, which we heard about last week. Still, it’s a lot less than buying the paper on the LIRR platform every day and you don’t need to be online to read it. Opinions?

The New York Times is considering taking its site to subscription only at a cost of $5/month. Print subscribers would get online access for only $2.50/month. Times Co. is contemplating additional sources of revenue as marketers slow spending on the Internet. Ad sales at the publisher’s sites, also including about.com and boston.com, fell 8 percent and 3.5 percent in the …

The New York Times has published an editorial slamming the DOJ-DOMA brief. If the administration does feel compelled to defend the act, it should do so in a less hurtful way. It could have crafted its legal arguments in general terms, as a simple description of where it believes the law now stands. There was no need to resort to …

An editorial in today’s New York Times strongly rebukes the state Senate and Majority Leader Malcolm Smith for dragging their feet on a vote on marriage equality and calls on them to immediately approve marriage equality. Six states have now made it legal for same-sex couples to marry. New York is not one of them. Gov. David Paterson wants the …

Openly gay movie mogul David Geffen is angling to buy the New York Times, which is sure to inspire even more wingnut cries about the gay mafia running the nation’s MSM. David Geffen, the former record executive who made an offer for the Los Angeles Times two years ago, now wants to buy the New York Times, according to people …

It looks like the end may be near for the Boston Globe. The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England’s most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks. After down-to-the-wire negotiations did not produce millions of dollars in …

You’ve got to read Frank Rich’s column in the NYT today in which he eviscerates NOM and the anti-marriage equality movement and says that they’ve lost the fight. A delicious snippet: Far from terrifying anyone, “Gathering Storm” has become, unsurprisingly, an Internet camp classic. On YouTube the original video must compete with countless homemade parodies it has inspired since first …

In today’s New York Times, Guy Trebay talks about American Idol favorite Adam Lambert’s love for eyeliner and whether a gay contestant can win the most popular show in America. Let’s imagine, then, that among the assorted warblers and strummers and leather-lunged divas that have made up the renewable cast of hopefuls on the country’s No. 1 television show, you …

The editor of the New York Times says the paper may go back to the paid subscription model for some of its online content, a format the paper abandoned two years ago. Executive Editor Bill Keller gave no specifics or timetable, and company officials characterized the internal discussions as general and ongoing. In an online question-and-answer exchange with readers this …

As I reported here on Tuesday, today the Beckett Fund published a full page ad in the New York Times decrying the recent protests against the Mormon Church (and others) for their support of Proposition 8. You’ll have to embiggen the image above to read it, but the main quote is: “The violence and intimidation directed at the LDS or …