Requiem for the Gray Lady (Part 1)
Once the paper of record in the USA, under Dean Baquet the New York Times has become a left-wing tabloid with an antique type font
“Friends, Romans, Countrymen
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones”
Act III, Scene II, “Julius Caesar”, William Shakespeare
Once upon a time, long long ago, there were a few daily publications in the USA that at least tried to separate editorial opinion from reporting. Ther…