Things to be Tolerant of
New York Times and its readership
Is it just me or is the recent series on Las Vegas completely condescending? Forget about the fact that Las Vegas has been a phenomenon of the nineties and the NYTimes is, as usual, behind the curve. Forget the Jason Blair, Howell Raines thing.
The main resentment I have is that the Paper of Record issue and my inchoate problems with the metropolitan culture establish itself on the hinterlands and the fact that those self-concoius intellegentsia trapped in cincinatti or miami or los angeles pay such slavish fealty to it.
And then there's the Tiffany ads, next to remember the neediest...
Is it just me or is the recent series on Las Vegas completely condescending? Forget about the fact that Las Vegas has been a phenomenon of the nineties and the NYTimes is, as usual, behind the curve. Forget the Jason Blair, Howell Raines thing.
The main resentment I have is that the Paper of Record issue and my inchoate problems with the metropolitan culture establish itself on the hinterlands and the fact that those self-concoius intellegentsia trapped in cincinatti or miami or los angeles pay such slavish fealty to it.
And then there's the Tiffany ads, next to remember the neediest...