Times HQ, photo by Joe Shlabotnik.
UPDATE: This afternoon, The Times announced that it is cutting 100 newsroom jobs, or 8 percent of the total.
You subscribed because daily delivery of The New York Times is practically a civic duty in New York, like voting or recycling. Maybe you actually read it every day. Or maybe you don’t. And you watch those blue-sleeved carcasses pile up on the dining room table like chicken that spoiled in the fridge before anyone managed to cook it. You feel guilty for the tree/bird that died in vain, but also for spending the dough so pointlessly on something you wound up tossing. Instead of a snobbish pleasure, The Times becomes yet another thing you didn’t do.
But you can’t quit, because New York is a media town, and subscribing to a certain number of newspapers and magazines is like driving a Ford in Detroit. Read the rest of this entry ยป
