Salon.com > Nicholas Kristof http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 21:11:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hack List No. 10: New York Times http://www.salon.com/2012/12/19/salons_2012_hack_list_10_the_new_york_times/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/19/salons_2012_hack_list_10_the_new_york_times/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13147639 This year, my annual list of the worst of political media highlights not just individuals, but the institutions that enable those individuals. The 2012 Hack List will be counting down the 10 media outlets that are hurting America over the next two days -- stay tuned! (Previous Hack List entries here, here and here.)

The New York Times is America's Last Newspaper, and because of that it is the recipient of a lot of grief that it doesn't always entirely deserve. Conservatives think it's the Daily Worker. Liberals blame it for Iraq and Bush's second term. Young people refuse to pay to read it.

The truth is, it is a good newspaper. It has great reporting that it spends a bunch of money on. It has a crossword puzzle. It has David Carr.

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