I appreciate your journalism, and value your deeply researched and reasoned decision to abandon The New York Times. I quit subscription to that paper, and the Washington Post, earlier this year. For me, it wasn’t as cerebral a decision. It was my recurrent nausea and vomiting in response to their kid glove treatment of all the wrong people.
Now, The Times crawls back
with a new pitch every day… today it started with, “Sale starts now. Discover something new with our best offer.”
Thank you for your clear-eyed analysis. I was debating if I should unsubcribe from NYT just a few days ago, when they told me my credit card didn't work. I updated the card, and then I read their fluff piece on Ballerna Farm, which did not mention anything about her connection with the right wing agenda nor pinpoint her being a poster child of the trad wife movement that models female submission and role as a babymaking machine. The piece ran in the Food section and totally bypassed the crucial social issues that cannot be separated from her, her marriage and business. It read like an infomercial. After reading it and now your essay, I've decided to pull the plug.
Carrie, for 10 years I played a game with my NYT subscription. Having signed up for a $1 a week online subscription, every year when it was going to go up to full price, I would call and cancel. And every year they would say “if you stay we can extend the $1 a week offer for another year”. So I did. Until 2023, when sick of what I was reading, or not reading there, I decided that it wasn’t worth it anymore. I could no longer support them.
And speaking of PerformINK, as an actor in Chicago in the 90’s, I always looked forward to each new edition, especially if I was in a show that was opening. It was always nice to see my name in print, and I still have the clips in my scrap book.
It was a big part of our community.
What an amazing time that was.
Since then I lived in LA and now in Atlanta, and have never found anything like it again.
I’ve been reading your substack since I found you here this summer, and look forward to reading your work. thanks
I knew I recognized your name. But my brain didn't compute what life it was from. I moved home to Vegas in 2014, but still get back to Chicago often. Those were amazing times. Pre-fascism. Pre 9/11. Thanks for the kind words, Noel. I appreciate them.
Yup. NYT is a full on rag now. MSNBC was like that throughout Biden's term. Not sure what that means for us as a society. Time will tell. But I don't need the propaganda.
I appreciate your journalism, and value your deeply researched and reasoned decision to abandon The New York Times. I quit subscription to that paper, and the Washington Post, earlier this year. For me, it wasn’t as cerebral a decision. It was my recurrent nausea and vomiting in response to their kid glove treatment of all the wrong people.
Now, The Times crawls back
with a new pitch every day… today it started with, “Sale starts now. Discover something new with our best offer.”
Thank you for your clear-eyed analysis. I was debating if I should unsubcribe from NYT just a few days ago, when they told me my credit card didn't work. I updated the card, and then I read their fluff piece on Ballerna Farm, which did not mention anything about her connection with the right wing agenda nor pinpoint her being a poster child of the trad wife movement that models female submission and role as a babymaking machine. The piece ran in the Food section and totally bypassed the crucial social issues that cannot be separated from her, her marriage and business. It read like an infomercial. After reading it and now your essay, I've decided to pull the plug.
Carrie. Me too. Here is why on BlueSky:
Here is AP’s headline about Assad is more accurate. “Ousted” vs “Resigned”
https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad-sweida-daraa-homs-hts-qatar-816e538565d1ae47e016b5765b044d31 Ousted Syrian leader Assad flees to Moscow after fall of Damascus, Russian state media say
Yes! I do still check AP and Reuters. And they don't make you subscribe.
Carrie, for 10 years I played a game with my NYT subscription. Having signed up for a $1 a week online subscription, every year when it was going to go up to full price, I would call and cancel. And every year they would say “if you stay we can extend the $1 a week offer for another year”. So I did. Until 2023, when sick of what I was reading, or not reading there, I decided that it wasn’t worth it anymore. I could no longer support them.
And speaking of PerformINK, as an actor in Chicago in the 90’s, I always looked forward to each new edition, especially if I was in a show that was opening. It was always nice to see my name in print, and I still have the clips in my scrap book.
It was a big part of our community.
What an amazing time that was.
Since then I lived in LA and now in Atlanta, and have never found anything like it again.
I’ve been reading your substack since I found you here this summer, and look forward to reading your work. thanks
I knew I recognized your name. But my brain didn't compute what life it was from. I moved home to Vegas in 2014, but still get back to Chicago often. Those were amazing times. Pre-fascism. Pre 9/11. Thanks for the kind words, Noel. I appreciate them.
Yup. NYT is a full on rag now. MSNBC was like that throughout Biden's term. Not sure what that means for us as a society. Time will tell. But I don't need the propaganda.