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Nevermind, context is overrated, so feel free interpret this nonsense from New York Times executive editor Bill Keller in whichever way feels most comfortable: “Commenting on the keep-the-Times alive movement, Keller said: ‘Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.’” Ha ha ha. Hmm! No. [Calderone]
9:55 AM
on Fri April 3 2009
By
Jim Newell
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Does this mean that MoDo is the equivalent of a starving orphan or several hundred?
Are Americans so starved for activism that they can be motivated to care about the fate of the nation’s second least awful newspaper? People! find something meaningful to get up-in-arms about! Project 9/12 could not have come at a better time. Thank you Glenn Beck.
P.S. What’s a Darfur?
No, Bill, there are people who *actually* give a shit about Darfur.
‘Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.’
Wow, proof in one sentence while the Grey Lady is fading into irrelevance.
…uhhhhhh yeah? Because all of their employees are starving and malnourished? Or is it because hordes of ethnic Arabs are rampaging through the hall of the New York Times raping, brutalizing, maiming and killing their ethnically black employees? Yeah its totally like Sudan!!!
Have they tried whoring out MoDo–I mean for real?
KILL THE TIMES, SAVE THE TREES FROM GENOCIDE! It’s a poplar cause.
Red Zeppelin: Sorry, Chels was working that corner. Business ethics, you know.
Today, we are all NYT editors
I will be the first to laugh when their stately pleasure dome on 41rst st. is converted to an Ouback Steak House and a bowling alley.
Mr Blifil: Is that the one at the corner of Alph and Cavern?
Is it right for Bill to offer such a snarky evaluation of the worth of his own supporters’ commitment to their causes? Oh, my bad: he wasn’t blogging, he was just commenting spontaneously.
Unless of course he was being serious, not snarky? Would that be better or worse?
SAVE TEH FRIEDMANZ!
*facepalm*
Rukasu: Allowing Friedman to fall off into the abyss is a cause I can get behind. Especially if I never have to see his nodding head and steepled hands during interviews again.
I think Keller means that Americans can go on ignoring the Times and just assume that the problem will solve itself.
When a newspaper in New York beats it’s wings, it creates a sandstorm in Darfur. This is known as the Friedman Effect.
MarieDeGournay: That would surely be the best part of the NYT going under, It’s less his columns that anger me than the 70s stache
DC Hates Me: Friedman actually realized this is true while scribbling about airplanes’ effects on global warming on a cocktail napkin in businees class on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Hanoi to Sydney that was and as he was looking down as the plane crossed the Straight of Gibralter that the billboard ad for Papa John’s pizza on top of the Eiffel Tower truly made the world flat, while Steve Jobs and some Indian CEO sat next to him.
I’ll get behind saving the New York Times if, and only if, their columnists are slaughtered by Janjaweed militia.
I thought snark was outlawed at the Times?
Worst analogy EVAR.
Look, I think that newspapers should not go away; they serve as a vital counterbalance to all the bullshit on the Internets. The whole “Obama is a sekrit Muslin/Obama is a sekrit British citizen” meme would never have developed before the Interwebs, because newspapers do things like fact-checking. Now, any jagoff like Orly Taitz can open up a website stuffed full of crap that fools “some of the people all of the time”, just like P.T. Barnum said.
But to compare saving the Times to Darfur is, well… um, I dunno, buttsecks?
The Cold Sea: Only snark which fails to objectively present both sides of the issue.
Mild Midwesterner: Utter win.
President Beeblebrox: Fact checking? Have you read the Times lately? Like in the last 16 years?
Take it back, Bill. Take it back.
Fuck you.
The Times is doomed.
Rukasu: You know, as I was sitting in a NY cab, texting my friend Vikham in New Delhi, he reminded me that if we didn’t consume small forests for the daily newspaper industry, these trees would fester with termites who would soon consume our forests and spread into the suburbs in search of wood. Imagine our country if termite hordes consumed our houses because the NYTimes stopped publishing.
President Beeblebrox: Lincoln (or maybe Bob Dylan) said “You can fool some of the people…” P T Barnum said, “There’s a Republican born every minute,” or words to that effect.