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Manufacturer: New York Times
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 2-4
Format: Newspaper Subscription
Issues Per Year: 365
Label: New York Times
Magazine Type: Trade magazine
Manufacturer: New York Times
Number Of Issues: 365
Publisher: New York Times
Studio: New York Times
Subscription Length: 365
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Summary: No news is good news
Comment: I picked up the New York Times recently after a 15-year hiatus. I admit it was better than it had been circa 1988; at that time anything any Washington insider said was reported uncritically and the NYT had and has its share of the responsibility of pushing our nation closer to barbarism. But overall, I found the paper nearly as complacent, banal, thoughtless and ignorant as before.
Now I am man who used to read the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Economist and Christianity Today every day (I know not all are dailies, but you have to spread it out). I was frighteningly informed on most things. I did not read the Sunday paper which even then made me sick. But I began to notice that something I'd devoted hours and hours to reading over the past years was false. That is, I had learned about some series of events that turned out merely to be statements made by one "source" to a reporter. I noticed that huge stacks of words formed piles on the floor until they were taken out to the "paper drive." They started as words--not facts--and they stayed that way. (Perhaps we should call it a "unwanted words" drive and we could put all the other words that won't change our lives in the same bins--words like "kindness," "decency," "sweepstakes," "fortitude," "help wanted.") I noticed that I wasn't a better person for knowing what one horrible person was doing to another somewhere else. I began to think it strange that the NYT had quarter page advertisements for watches that cost $10,000 and tiny letters urging us to "remember the neediest" at the bottom. And I noticed something in myself--a deeply insane belief that simply by knowing about something I was doing something about it, that I was a cut higher than the average man on the street.
So I stopped reading this or any other paper. I did more. I moved out to the country (not immediately, but within a year) and changed trades. And yet, that was not the most important, or even the most revolutionary, change that I was to find I had to make. But it was a start. [1]
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Summary: The World's Greatest Newspaper (in English anyway)
Comment: I have been subscribing the New York Times for many years now. I get behind and they tend to pile up when I am busy, but I read them anyway. It's a great paper and a great read. I always learn more after reading the Times. I have lived in other parts of the world and read their newspapers too, but The New York Times seems the best to me. It doesn't mean I read it exclusively however. The paper itself is better than just reading it online because you can relax and lean back comfortably. The issues don't expire or get locked out after a period of time also. The reporting is topnotch. I am lucky to receive the New York edition and not the national edition, which is more condensed and smaller. Enjoy!
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Summary: Loved it until I got a subscription
Comment: I always liked the NY Times--I started reading it because we had a program in college where you could get it for free. After I graduated, my boyfriend bought me a subscription for a present. I received maybe 3 papers a week. The delivery driver managed to get it everywhere except someplace where I could find it. I called to request that the delivery person at least get it in the vicinity of my yard, to no avail. I cancelled it long before the subscription was up, because it was too frustrating to not receive my paper and to deal with customer service.
I ended up getting a subscription to The Economist instead, and I have been a very happy subscriber for more than 5 years. With the relatively recent scandals at the Times, and some of the more overt political pressures they cave to, I'm glad I made the switch. The Economist is a British paper, and it's nice to get an outsider's view of the US. They also do a MUCH better job of providing world news, as well as backstories and stories in progress or events that have the potential to shape world events. It's only published weekly, but they update their website daily. Consider it a viable replacement. People who like the Times for its progressive views may be hesitant because The Economist is conservative, but only fiscally so, it is not usually socially conservative.
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Summary: NYTimes makes a wonderful gift
Comment: If you are trying to find the perfect gift for one of the intelligent, hard-to-gift persons on your list, a subscription to the New York Times may be a well-received solution.
I had requested a subscription to the New York Times for every occasion (birthday, Christmas, Valentines, etc.) for the past three years, and every year until Christmas 2005, my family and friends disregarded the paper as an odd, if not un-giftable, item to request. Fortunately, my fiance's mother and sister decided to go into a 12-week subscription together. I look forward to Sunday mornings as though each one were a new Christmas. The blue plastic bag in the drive way is a cause for celebration each week-end morning. After the first 12 weeks of the year, I became so accustomed to my week-end ritual of the paper, coffee and Meet the Press that I made room in my own budget to include the price of the subscription.
I prefer the New York Times over other news publications for a very simple reason: it is written to my level and I never feel as though the writers are talking down to me or simplifying the story. I have heard cries of liberal bias concerning this publication, especially the editorials, but when I read this paper, I get the sense that they really want me to know and understand all sides to a story. Few newspapers devote space to complete copies of primary documents (speeches, proposed bills and amendments, etc.) like the New York Times consistently does and this allows me to make up my own opinion on the issues.
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Summary: The BEST U.S. Newspaper
Comment: News is well researched and balanced, and I especially like their columnists such as Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Bob Herbert, and Maureen Dowd. In addition there is the excellent weekly NYT Book Review, and the occasional scoop - eg. the NSA spying flap.
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