Today is the day President Joe Biden stopped his campaign for re-election to the presidency of the United States. Today is the day I cancelled my standing subscription to The New York Times. And today is the day I finished reading Until August, a posthumous novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Columbian Nobel prize winning author.
These are all sad events piling one on top of the other. Perhaps they are connected by more than the date, but perhaps not. I make no judgment about that. Rather, I am struck with the similarity of the three incidents.
Biden cancels; I cancel; and Marquez, who died in 2014, cancelled. By that I mean, he requested that the manuscript in question be destroyed. But his sons decided there was merit in publishing it ten years after their father’s death. There has been backlash to this decision. As there will be for the Biden decision too.
But my decision is cut and dried; I’m done with The New York Times.
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