Department of Irony - NY Times department
Saw a reference to a story that looked somewhat interesting - people under 30 are not paying as much attention to the printed media.
Turns out the link points to an article at the NY Times - a bastion of the classical biased Main Stream Media.
When the page loads, the viewer is presented with the following:
Young Adults Are Giving Newspapers Scant Notice
By JUSTON JONES
Published: July 16, 2007
Most teenagers and adults 30 and younger are not following the news closely at all, according to a recent report.
For free access to this article and more, you must be a registered member of NYTimes.com.
So perfectly clueless -- of course, you can visit
bug-me-not and get a fake username and password that will work for a few weeks until some faceless IT drone at NYT World Central notices and pulls the plug on the account but gimme a break.
The Grey Lady is complaining about tanking readership while they are simultaneously enforcing a bogus registration policy. Google News is an awesome alternative.
Posted by DaveH at July 16, 2007 10:21 PM