I did it. I just canceled my subscription to The New York Times.
I have been a reader of the NYT since high school. Yes, I was aware of the paper’s hostility toward Zionism and its non-coverage of the Holocaust.
And over the years, no matter my distaste for some of its Israel
coverage and the tendentious columns by Tom Friedman, Roger Cohen, and Anthony
Lewis, I did not want to stop getting the paper.
Overall the scope and breadth, and elegance of its coverage
were unsurpassed. Moreover, I wanted to expose myself to views that made me
question my positions.
However, in recent years the Times has deteriorated as a serious newspaper/outlet.
I can cope with grossly slanted coverage.
I can even
cope with the condescending and relentless “how-to” pieces … of the how-to peel
a banana or wipe your ass variety.
But when the newspaper/outlet presents principally as a viewspaper,
when editors dictate that woke rule virtually every facet of coverage from books
to soft features – it is time to stop being a chump subscriber.
At some stage, The Times embarked on a didactic endeavor to program,
North Korean-style, a generation of readers to imbibe the propaganda of intolerance
and the myopia of woke. Newer readers probably don’t even know they are being
manipulated. Veteran readers may be too sluggish to make a move.
But not this old geezer. Bye-bye, New York Times.
