But they really can't say "Republican" without the term "extreme" next to it. Its hard enough for them to say the word "conservative".
According to Editor and Publisher, executive editor Bill Keller wants to cover more... ahem, conservative things. Whatever those things are.
He also said that he endorsed the internal committee’s recommendation "that we cover religion more extensively.... This is important to us not because we want to appease believers or pander to conservatives, but because good journalism entails understanding more than just the neighborhood you grew up in."
This just gives me a few funny visuals in my head. I keep picturing a bunch of reporters, palm recorders in hand, walking up to people who are coming out of a church and asking, "So. What goes on in there?"
Or maybe they'll go to a NASCAR event, and wander around, asking- "So. Republican. Right?"
Or an army base. Oh wait, they don't do that unless they know that a soldier has done something wrong, or that a conscientious objector is on the base, or a soldier has declared himself to be gay and wants to stay in the military.
Anyway, I can't wait to read the new, more balanced, New York Times.
Tee hee hee!
That just makes me giggle to type that.
-John
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