Fit to print
I spent some quality time with yesterday's New York Times, and I learned all kinds of stuff. Like:
-- The death toll in Iraq is now more than 100 people a day.
-- Blogspot has been banned in India.
-- New York City may try to make Critical Mass get a parade permit for every ride.
-- In New York City, before you can build a large development, you are required to prepare an environmental impact statement.
-- It costs the federal government 1.4 cents to mint a penny.
As Walter used to say, "And that's the way it is."
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India banning Blogger is strange. I've discovered and linked to blogs on Blogger created in and blogged by Indians living in India. I wonder if this is somehow connected to the Mumbai train bombings?
It's very strange. I think I'll email friends in India to see what their take on this is.
Interesting you're a tax person, I studied tax in law school, but I never practiced.
Posted by: ExpatJane at July 20, 2006 06:03 AMI think it's more like "print to fit". The WSJ yesterday reports that the Times will shrink its size from the current 54" to 48" wide as a cost-cutting measure. That should make it easier to read on the crowded aerial tram, too.
Posted by: Allan L. at July 20, 2006 07:11 AMWhat's more strange than blog censorship in India? Censoring progressive blogs in the US!! More indications Conservatives are scared to death of what the internet represents:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/15030998.htm
As for shrinking the NYT page size, I'm all for it. Too unwieldy for the bus, MAX or any other situation...
Posted by: TKrueg at July 20, 2006 10:55 AMThe cent coin and dollar note have been on the chopping block for decades because they are expensive to produce. They should have been cut long ago. However, we've kept these and other symbols that our currency is stable to boost confidence in the dollar, because the US is insolvent. IMHO, this proposed legislation hints at the adoption of a weak-dollar policy and a strategy to inflate our way out of debt.
Posted by: pennyorcent at July 20, 2006 11:25 AMHow about Dowd's column today?
Posted by: ellie at July 20, 2006 04:50 PM"The death toll in Iraq is now more than 100 people a day."
Posted by: tom at July 20, 2006 04:53 PMLet us not forget that they all died in a Free and Democratic Iraq. Remember the glass is half full not half empty!
I wish it wasn't behind the TimesSelect firewall...
Posted by: TKrueg at July 20, 2006 04:53 PMOh, Tom, that's depressing.
TKrueg, if you want, I can e-mail it to you.
Of Bush, she writes, "he can make even a global summit meeting seem like a kegger."
Posted by: ellie at July 20, 2006 04:59 PMAllan writes:
"The WSJ yesterday reports that the Times will shrink its size ..."
I thought you were talking profits and readership, not physical size. Their readership is really dropping fast, as are ad revenues.
Can you say buggie whipped?
It is really rather sad watching how these once fine institutions are just going down with such a slow (and in some cases not so slow) painful death.
Posted by: Harry at July 20, 2006 05:21 PMNPR reported that NYT is cutting 250 jobs as well. The physical size is shrinking but they'll add more pages. Overall, they said it would be about 5% smaller. I think I heard that on "Marketplace" the day before yesterday.
Posted by: ellie at July 20, 2006 05:39 PMStill, the NYT is losing readership at a much slower clip than most, if not all, major newspapers.
Posted by: TKrueg at July 20, 2006 05:48 PMwill shrink its size from the current 54" to 48" wide as a cost-cutting measure. That should make it easier to read...
Growing up on Long Island (NY) we were taught in school --by NY Times PR folks, I guess-- how to properly fold the paper on the vertical, so you could properly read the paper as you commuted into the city on the Long Island Rail Road.
Every once in a while I see someone using that unique technique on the bus...
Posted by: Frank Dufay at July 20, 2006 07:09 PMAnd lest we forget the double standard in what is tolerated in punditry... Ann Coulter admitted to sending fake Antrax to the NYT last week. She previously said she wished McVeigh had bombed the NYT instead of OK. City. Then remember what Pat Robertson said...
If Maureen Dowd or Paul Krugman had said something like that, they'd be thrown in the slammer under one draconian terror law or another.
Anyone starting to see the parallels?
Posted by: TKrueg at July 20, 2006 07:18 PM"IF" Maureen Dowd and Krugman said something like that? When DON'T they?!
Posted by: tscrib at July 21, 2006 09:35 AM"Growing up on Long Island (NY) we were taught in school --by NY Times PR folks, I guess-- how to properly fold the paper on the vertical, so you could properly read the paper as you commuted into the city on the Long Island Rail Road.
Every once in a while I see someone using that unique technique on the bus..."
Vertical folding makes a lot of sense on the crowded subway trains in the city, too; it's funny how we some habits stay with us. I still wear my watch facing inward, even though it would be unlikely I would jab someone with my elbow looking at it in Portland. But wait...New York on the Willamette rises....
Posted by: Cynthia at July 21, 2006 10:49 AMAt some overseas military bases, pennies have long been rounded off to the nearest nickel for all purchases (I lived two years that way in South Korea). It's great to not have pennies weighing down one's pocket...and notable that stores like the base exchange still tried to entice folks with those xx.99 prices. It makes no sense for the U.S. to continue minting and using pennies.
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