You might be interested that the NYT has become #3 in its home market as well as seeing its stock tank 40% versus the S&P over the recent period:

http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2005/07/17/pecking-order-at-the-new-york-times-places-shareholders-last/

Thanks,

Jack Risko

And can we fer Chrissakes please get some other suffix besides -gate to describe the scandal du jour? thisgate, thatgate, whatevergate. Retire this lame appellation once and for all.

Monty, they won't, because for the press, Watergate represents the shining moment of their existence, their entire reason for being.

Of course, look beyond the Watergate mythos and you see shoddy reporting and, as we now know, a highly anti-Nixon source, but don't let those minor details make you lose faith in the American media.

You're right Slub, EVERYTHING is about frickin Watergate.

Or Vietnam.

The reaction from the MSM when they realized they were bamboozled by Wilson was so ho-hum they were willing to drag him back from obscurity to scream for Rove's head... never occurred to them that someone might say "uh, he's the liar, remember"?

EVERYTHING is about frickin Watergate.

Yes it is. It really was nothing more than a hissy fit by 'gotcha journalists who had tried to destroy Nixon for decades out of pure Liberal malice, about the only thing that Liberals do much better than conservatives.

I am always surprised when I ask Liberals what, exactly, was it that Nixon did that was so bad? Most say he ordered the break-in of the Watergate hotel, which he did not do. He didn't even know they were going to do it and said so quite candidly on the transcripts of the White House tapes. All that he actually did do, was to try to cover up the break in after his "plumbers" were caught. But the truth and the facts are never important to Liberals, only their personal hatred and prejudice.

The left hated Nixon for nailing Alger Hiss. Ask a lib who he was and they usually say "huh"?

EVERYTHING is about frickin Watergate

More right than you know. My undergraduate degree is in journalism - Watergate was the subject we spent more time on than anything in history of mass comm, with the requisite snide remarks about Nixon included.

Even journalists who had no role to play in the reporting of the scandal (read: ALL of my teachers), felt as though they were part of something 'larger than themselves' just for hating Nixon.

It was an easy club to join, I guess.

Slublog

I've asked before to no avail but I'll ask again:

what does slublog mean?

Sorry if you've asked before and I didn't notice.

Slublog is a play on an internet name I've used for years - Slubgob. The name Slubgob is a character from C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," one of my favorite books.