Let me be more clear about why I’m taking a break from The New York Times. Especially when I believe the publication’s writing is excellent, the typo rate is small; and the book section is a national treasure, since the NYT is the only newspaper I know of in our country to offer such a section every Sunday.
I am tired of the paper’s opinions. They are everywhere. I have no problem with opinions on the opinion pages, but the headlines, the various articles, and even the ads reek of opinion. And hyperbole. And dramatization.
Charles Blow, Jamelle Bouis, David Brooks, Frank Bruni, Gail Collins, Ross Douthat, Maureen Doud, Thomas Friedman, Michelle Goldberg, Ezra Klein, Nicholas Kristof, Paul Krugman . . . and I’m not even to the middle of the alphabet!
They all want to tell you what they think. What I prefer are facts where I decide for myself what I alone think. But this doesn’t seem to be the way these days. It’s too bad, because we are becoming a nation of non-thinkers, one where the electorate is influenced by opinions. Grrr!
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