http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/the-paper-of-record-and-the-organic-urban-legend/ The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/the-paper-of-record-and-the-organic-urban-legend/#comment-7995 G Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:40:10 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/the-paper-of-record-and-the-organic-urban-legend/#comment-7995 It's also time to retire this nonsense about the "paper of record". The NYT is no better or worse than any other newspaper, not after multiple credibility scandals and several turnovers of staff and management. No one outside the New York metro area regards them as a higher authority anymore, and focusing media watchdog efforts on it, to the exclusion of other outlets, runs the risk of being parochial. It’s also time to retire this nonsense about the “paper of record”. The NYT is no better or worse than any other newspaper, not after multiple credibility scandals and several turnovers of staff and management. No one outside the New York metro area regards them as a higher authority anymore, and focusing media watchdog efforts on it, to the exclusion of other outlets, runs the risk of being parochial.

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