Abstract

The 215,000-Word Habit: Should Give My Life to the Times?

The article focuses on the popularity of the "New York Times," newspaper in the United States. Few regular readers have the chutzpah to snub the paper entirely for a day, never doubting they will be punished in some mysterious way, yet few can get through it without psychic confusions about what to skip, whether to read at the expense of earning a living, vacuuming the rug, writing a letter to the phone company, etc. The author says that "The Times," is not the most incredible 30-percent buy in New York, but it is at a perilous subjective cost. There is a crisis at the New York Times. If a reader feels that only by brilliant eye-editing he can reach the last page without putting a sixty foot trench in the middle of the day, something is gravely out of whack.