My Husband's Farewell To The Times

My husband, Chris Noblet, just sent this to The New York Times. Feel free to use it as a model for your e-mail to them.

"I have read the Times for over three decades, have many times been a home subscriber, and have been a premium internet subscriber since you offered the service. Many times, I have emailed friends and associates with interesting Times articles. Many years, in many places, such as Connecticut, Manhattan and California, I subscribed to the paper edition of the Times.

As a former journalist, I admired the Times immensely. As a corporate communications professional for many years, I worked with the Times on numerous occasions, and in the last 15 years have been very disappointed to see the slippage in the quality and objectivity of your reporters.

I accepted, even occasionally admired, William Safire. I accepted David Brooks.

All that said, if you hire William Kristol, it will be the final cut. You will have betrayed everything I have ever admired in the Times. I am serious about this. I will terminate my email and any premium subscription. I will no longer purchase the Times or the Herald Tribune at newsstands. My interest in the success of your publication will cease, and I will get all my news from elsewhere. Any regrets I may have will be assuaged by my knowledge that your hiring of that arrogant, blockheaded, smirking, war-mongering scumbag proves you have finally lost your way."

I probably would have left out "scumbag." But it wouldn't have been easy!

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Comments

[WorkingClass]

Thank you for this Kathleen. When liberal blue bloods such as yourself abandon the NYT its demise is expedited. The best thing that could happen regarding the Times is that it go out of business never to be seen again. The Times is a tool of the oligarchy that wants endless war, poverty, powerlessness and early death for the working class.

[Danny]

I hope Thom Hartmann stops advertising subscriptions to the NY Times on Air America ("call RIGHT NOW!"). They are sinking so low with this appointment.

[TXfemmom]

They may as well hire Osamma Bin Laden, so it would present a fair and balanced scenario, to balance out Kristol.