Seeing Through the New York Times

Like many others the world over, amidst the reality that physical, get-the-print-on-your-fingers newspapers are folding, I take a deep pleasure in receiving the Sunday New York Times each week, and reading it, cover to cover. Born in the mid-80s, I have grown up witnessing the rapid change of media consumption, and while I see the merits of being able to refresh news sites by the second, getting up-to-date news nearly as fast as it happens, I still cling to the old ways of receiving my news.

I contemplated writing a long-form essay on the topic, on the demise of the world's attention span and all the concomitant consequences, but realized that, in addition to sabotaging the very medium for which I am writing now, I couldn't do it justice in time for this blog tidbit (a blidbit) to be published before all you other Sunday New York Times readers crumple your papers and throw them in the recycling bin. Furthermore, a picture says 1,000 words; in this instance, I opt for brevity.

Turn to The Oscars section of today's Times, page 21. Hold the page up to a bright light, and focus on the ad for "The Wrestler." I wonder what Ayatollah Khomeini would have to say about Rushdie's newest exploit?

The joys of reading a physical paper are many. But this takes the cake.

Comments

[BanjoMan]

Hee, hee... talk about your Satanic (re)Verses. Ol' Salmon's head on top of Mickey''s battered body. Is there a metaphor lurking in there somewhere? Now we'll have to hold every page of the Times up to the light, not only figuratively, but LITERALLY, to see if Beelzebubbian tracts are sneaking into the sports section. Of course we Wikkas have known for years that if you hold the top of page one of the Times up to the light and look through the reverse side, "All the news that's fit to print" becomes "Tnirp ot tif staht nwen eht lla," which is Satanic for "Sometimes we even get it right."

[rhettisha]

What's a newspaper?

[larry278]

Something you wouldn't want if you knew what it was. It's difficult to miss what you have never seen or had.