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Re: Wednesday, July 9, 2003
I saw that "Lure of Data" story in the Sunday Times. Began to read it, and quickly realized it was just more of the usual "cater to the new version of yuppie spenders" tripe one sees in the Times these days, and dismissed it. The article breaks no new ground, reports nothing that it is newsworthy, is neither informative, entertaining or worth the time it would take to read it in full. The Times, under Pinch (a name for Punch, Jr., the self-righteous yupster son of the former publisher), has undergone a change in which it feature very chi-chi "in-group" directed articles. The Metropolitan coverage has gone downhill. Many fluff articles such as this Lure of Data timewaster appear. The Times seems more in sync with HBO's Sex and The City than with what's really going on in real life. Modernity and cheekiness, catering, apparently, to the whippersnappers at the buyer's desks in major agencies, has begun to rule a sizable portion of the content of the Times. Meanwhile, The Daily News has responded with an enormously improved product. The Post, of course, is entertaining (one never reads the Post for news, since every word published therein is suspect), and has the best word games if one is stuck commuting for long periods in a train or on a bus. What New York really needs is the return of The Herald Tribune. Of course, in this environment in which one "lusts for data," it is easy enough to Wifi over to a better news website, or just enetertain oneself with the myriad of portable battery-powered devices available to the data -or mindless entertainment- starved user comunity. There are responses to this message:
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