I think could read the New York Times for a hundred years and not come across anything as well-written as this gem of a blog post by Joyce Cohen, who writes The Hunt column in the Times. I love her column — but this is better. It’s about something I don’t even care about, New York real estate.
By incredible coincidence, Nicholas Kristof’ s most recent blog entry (April 17, 2007) is also better, in my opinion, than essentially everything that appears in the Times (or any other paper). Kristof reprints a letter to him from a student that makes an extremely important point about Africa coverage in the Times (and, probably, all other Western newspapers): It is unceasingly focussed on failure. I wonder why.
I think could read the New York Times for a hundred years and not come across anything as well-written as this gem of a blog post by Joyce Cohen, who writes The Hunt column in the Times. I love her column — but this is better. It’s about something I don’t even care about, New York real estate.
By incredible coincidence, Nicholas Kristof’ s most recent blog entry (April 17, 2007) is also better, in my opinion, than essentially everything that appears in the Times (or any other paper). Kristof reprints a letter to him from a student that makes an extremely important point about Africa coverage in the Times (and, probably, all other Western newspapers): It is unceasingly focussed on failure. I wonder why.