if i’d ever have the choice the newspaper i’d love to work for would be the new york times. not for the name, the reputation or its history but because it has resisted – please call upon on me if i am wrong – giving up common sense and sensibility. not only did i enjoy the scoop on new york governor eliot spitzer who after all had to step down from office after the times reported spitzer as the well-pazing consumer of a prostitution ring but also the way reporting was done. it was facts and opinions with a sharp line drawn between them. there was class, there was style and there was after all a subtle but noticable undertone that, while spitzer’s decision to leave office was the only to be taken at that time, failing is inherent to human beings as well as is getting up. that there were two spelling mistakes at one point and a sentence apparantly missing its second part only added up to my impression – that we all fail in small and large things at some points in our life. it’s that bit of human touch.
i believe.