There was a time when the NYT was synonymous with journalism…When people repeated the slogan All The News That’s Fit To Print. On the Sunday before the election, when the Times now leads off with the headline that the future of democracy itself is at sake this election (if the Republicans win), their days of journalism are over, and they have become just another tabloid. Perhaps more sophisticated than most, but a tabloid nevertheless.
In today’s world of Twitter and paywalls, headlines have much more significance. For many, they are the news. In fairness to the Times, quality old school journalism may be an extinct commodity.
Once the ultra wealthy bought sports teams, now they buy newspapers and social media. Apparently, new gauges are needed to measure the quality of today’s journalism.
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