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 Along With The WSJ, The 2 Best Daily Newspapers In The USA April 9, 2005
G. Reid (Roseland, NJ)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Don't miss the science section published each Tuesday.
The New York Times gives you great stories in depth from around the world. It is the detailed stories and some investigative stories that you can't find anyplace else that are so refreshing to read. Compared to the screaming cable news shows, the news presented in the NYT and WSJ is so much better and more complete that it almost takes your breath away. You will say to yourself "why did I waste my time watching those crazy cable news (really entertainment) shows that are so uninformative?" If most Americans get their news from the TV as I am told they do, then we have dark days ahead. Our society will become less enlightened and less caring.
America's Best Newspaper September 29, 2004
Jim Mann (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
The New York Times is America's best newspaper. Instead of the short articles found in most newspapers, the Times is full of detailed articles on all subjects -- not only news, but science (and the science articles are accurate and don't speak down to the intelligent layman), books, entertainment, and so on. It is also still the paper of record -- the place to go to for the text of major speeches, not just the highlights. Finally, it has good, in-depth analysis and feature/guest columnists. If you only read one paper, the Times should be it (though it'll take you twice as long to read as most papers and probably four times as long to read as USA Today).
 Loved it until I got a subscription December 17, 2006
Bidnezz (Boston)
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
 All the news the editors see fit to print February 26, 2006
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
The 'New York Times' is generally regarded as the world's most important and influential newspaper. It is 'the paper of record' and the one which has the greatest intellectual and cultural prestige.
It has a great staff of many of the world's finest journalists. It often provides investigative reports of great depth.
I have enjoyed reading it for so long as I can remember. A family ritual was my father Reuben Kelly Freedman (of blessed memory) buying the Sunday paper on Second Street in downtown Troy, New York for a quarter from the old Greek newsweller Teddy Popalapus. The huge paper would be taken home and taken apart in sections, with of course the sports section taken out first. I now have reached the age where another favorite of my fathers,'the obituary page ' also interests me.
I would like then thinking of all the years of reading the 'Times ' simply love to sing its praises.
But of course the problem is when you happen to know something about the subject covered.
My own personal pique and more than that at the 'Times' is for the political line it has promoted all these years. The over- liberal Times seems to me to not have been as politically astute and patriotic as it might have been. Certain of the 'Times' publications through the years such as 'The Pentagon Papers' of Daniel Ellsberg seemed to me to be a national disservice.
Even more importantly I have the sense that historically the 'Times ' has done more than one injustice . The 'Times' knew more than it told about the Holocaust when it was happening. It covered up what it should not have. I do not know if this might have made a difference in saving lives. My guess is it could have.
For a long-time now the Times 'balanced Middle - Eastern coverage' has concealed the real nature of the Middle East conflict, the tremendous hatred and violence of the Arab and now Islamic world against Israel. The 'Times' long faulted for its 'Jewish ownership' has bent backwards to show it is not - pro-Israel'. In so doing it often injured the Jewish people.
The 'Times' can be faulted in other ways. Consider a story that has recently become very prominent, the Iranian nuclear weapons development issue. Times' reporters(David Sanger and William Geertz) made important revelations along the way on this story(Thanks to Pentagon sources) But on the whole the 'Times' has taken a quite slow approach to perceiving the danger involved. This by the way is very typical of the 'Times' as it very often promotes liberal non- violent balanced solutions where they simply are not relevant.
What I have written here I know is unfair as it does not even touch upon so much 'The Times ' does daily. It provides reports and articles of interest on a great variety of subjects. I think it would be a shame if the 'Times' decided to 'dumb- down' to have broader appeal. There have been certain signs of it especially as it feels more threatened by other kinds of 'media'.
On the whole the 'New York Times' still provides great reporting in many different areas (Science, Health,) and is an institution which I hope will prosper and improve( politically) in the years ahead.
The BEST U.S. Newspaper March 7, 2006
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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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