UPDATED BELOW: (Saturday) Having had a somewhat longer commute than usual the past few weeks, I have once again become a daily New York Times reader, often to my considerable chagrin. For the last 15 years or so, as my local newspaper, the Oregonian, got thinner and thinner, I readily coughed up the extra [...]
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For many years, my sister gave me gift subscriptions to New York Magazine, and I became an avid fan. Michael Woolf’s credulous boom-goosing was balanced out by Michael Tomasky’s scathing investigative journalism, and their ongoing coverage of the Rudy Chronicles was worth the price of admission. Then, in the wake of George Bush’s “election,” they [...]
