Incoming NYT Editor Recalls Considering Paper 'Absolute Truth'; Times Scrubs Quote
Some time on Thursday, the New York Times scrubbed a very telling quote from its website. "In my house growing up," said the paper's new executive editor, Jill Abramson, "The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth."
Well isn't that nice. The paper's new head honcho was indoctrinated in Times-ology from childhood. When someone says they read the paper "religiously," we tend to think of it as a figure of speech. No so for Abramson. The paper was apparently her veritable scripture.
Does she still feel that way? Well, since being tapped for chief editor, Abramson said it was like "ascending to Valhalla."
The Times must have realized how this sounded. National Review's Jay Nordlinger noticed late Thursday night that the "absolute truth" quote no longer appeared in the online version of the story. To date, readers have not been notified of the change.
This sort of divine reverence for a news outlet is all the more ironic, given the criticism leveled at Roger Ailes of late for the apparent devotion he commands among Fox News employees. Rolling Stone even compared Ailes to Chairman Mao in a recent profile hit piece. Meanwhile, the new boss at the Times admitted to drawing the divine word from the paper's pages.
For all the whining about people supposedly accepting Fox's spin at face value, we hear very little about the near-fanatical faith the left places in its flagship newspaper.
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Everybody need a god
Submitted by wingnut55 on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:01pm.
If a person doesn't believe in the One True God, then they will invent one. This is just what she has done. Every person needs a god and she found her's in the New York Times. Does this mean that she is, now, the pope of that belief?
Nope.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:03pm.
It means that there are a lot of bird cages with birds crapping on her god.
She can head to the tack room and find a saddle for the unicorn
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:02pm.
to the far left of the main entrance.
You Didn't Build That.
I'm no expert on Vikings, but
Submitted by kareling on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:24pm.
I'm no expert on Vikings, but don't you have to die in battle to get into Valhalla?
Or maybe she's referring to the name of a subdivision of townhomes down the road from where I live.
Maybe she means this?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:35pm.
Maybe she means this?
I had the same thought.
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 7:11am.
Seems she was shooting for "Asgard", but missed, in a rather Freudian way if you ask me.
This happens all the time--libs have a tendency to stick their intellectual foot in their educated mouth. Instead of settling for the (passe for libs) "thought I'd died and gone to heaven", she has to reach for something a little more "well-read". Too bad her reach exceeds her grasp.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
And this changes things how?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 3:34pm.
"Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss"
-- "Won't Get Fooled Again" - the Who
Then we can be assured that
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 5:00pm.
Then we can be assured that the Times will continue to play god and make infallible pronouncements in its pages. Expect more condescending articles and proclamations of anathema on Republicans for following the Constitution and more angelic praises on Democrats because after all, they're sent by the Almighty!
Times have changed Jill,
Submitted by AngryInOhio on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 5:43pm.
Times have changed Jill, maybe when you start reporting the wholel truth and nothing but the truth instead of far left rhetoric, maybe you will get some more readers.
Yeah, as soon as pigs fly,
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 10:56am.
Yeah, as soon as pigs fly, Charles Manson gets paroled and Nancy Pelosi actually drains the swamp.
What she means subliminally is:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 7:49pm.
Absolute truth (liberal, socialistic hatred for all things conservative)
Just look at her picture.
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 9:49pm.
Just look at her picture. Look at that smug look on her face. She probably goes home to a 20K sq ft house where her servants fall to their knees so she can spit on them when she walks by. What an ass. I can't wait to watch her take the NYT into a further death spiral. With a little luck, doofus billionaire Slim (more money than brains) will pull his funding and that will be the end of that Liberal rag once and for all.
No, don't make me!
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 7:16am.
That twentysomething hairdo on a sixtysomething face creeps me out. Who does she think she's fooling?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Flight of the Valkyries...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:03pm.
Well, "Valhalla" Abramson is quite the Valkyrie, isn't she? Didn't Valkyries choose who was going to die in battle? It's kind of fitting since liberals like to choose economic winners and losers and who gets to be treated or die under medical rationing. As for Valhalla, I'm sure under her stewardship, the NYT will head even faster for the big liberal newspaper Valhalla in the sky. Cue the Wagner music....
Valyries in America!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:19pm.
Per your (almost a) request:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q
Who was it that said about Wagner’s music, “It’s not as bad as it sounds.”?
Anywho, I think your analogy was very good.
- Grump :o)
Grump,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:40pm.
Thanks and thanks. That would be one of Mark Twain's astute observations. When something is going very slowly, I say it can be timed with a Wagner opera. :)
I do find it somewhat weird that Abramson referenced a Norse mythical concept embraced by many Nazis. Can you imagine if some conservative newspaper editor (if there are any left) made that reference?
You know Chris N.
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 11:02pm.
I think if a conservative (editor, politician, or citizen) made that obseration... the media would be too lazy to look it up and wouldn't even bother reporting it.... given, of course, that their own interpretation (regardless of facts or situation) could make the conservative look bad.
The sad thing is that too many people no longer have a well rounded education and are too willing to let others do the thinking for them.
God save me from "experts"... unless they are electricians, where I am likely to get killed by not following their advice!
- Grump :o)
Grumpy,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 11:25pm.
You really don't think they would bother? I do. I think they have people who have the responsibility of scouring and parsing conservative quotes looking for anything - anything - that can be used to suggest - no matter how tenuous or innocuous - that the conservative is racist or sympathetic to Nazis.
Well Chris..
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 11:39pm.
I think beyond anything else the modern media is lazy. Now, I don't disagee there are many in the media who love to scoure every statement made by a conservative. Certainly I am not suggesting that the liberal mindset will not do everything in its power to discredit conservatives... My only point is that if it is not an obvious point (think: "talking point) that the liberals can exploit - then they are likely not to report it at all - full explainations are an anathema to the “press.”
But I do agree, if the situation can be exploited... rest assured the media will do its perceived duty – Blame Republicans (especially Bush, Cheney, and Palin).
No, ms. abramson, actually....hell awaits!
Submitted by Diesel on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:15pm.
No, ms. abramson, actually....hell awaits!
Almost fooled me.
Submitted by desert3030 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:38am.
I listened and read the comments from Ms. Abramson. Over the years I have read some of her work and based on that I thought, my error benefit of doubt, that maybe a change was coming. Then to read, and she acknowledged, changing prior articles, she lost and old reader that was going to come back and try print.
Best of luck Ms. Abramson, was looking for fresh air, not stale.
No air in a liberal vacuum.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 10:58am.
No air in a liberal vacuum.
NYT
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:00am.
The NYT is a complete waste of trees.
Uses for the NYT
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 11:02am.
I disagree. Uses for the NYT includes, but are not limited to, the following:
1) lining birdcages
2) wrapping fish and meats
3) emergency toilet paper
4) rolled up as a fly swatter
5) recycling for paper products
6) lighting charcoal grills and wood-burning fireplaces
7) office basketball