I’m with Jonah on this one.

Anecdote: One of the little running jokes I try to keep alive around NR is

my references to the NY Post as “America’s newspaper of record,” and my

disparaging of the NY Times, which I proudly claim not to read. Well,

sitting in the departure lounge on the way to (sigh) the cruise last week, I

was reading Iraq news in, er, the NY Times. Rich Lowry suddenly appeared,

saw me with the Times, and there were some sarcastic words uttered.

So yes, I do read the Times. I do so against inward resistance; I don’t

read it often; I don’t have delivery; I practically never venture into the

editorial pages; and I very, very rarely BUY it — an airport departure

lounge is about the only place I’ll hand over a greenback to the

Sulzbergers. (Other times I read it online, or at my local library, or at

NR world HQ.) Still, for foreign news coverage — pretty much the only

thing I go to the Times for — they can be superb, as with the reports on

Iraq fighting recently. Their China news is also of a generally high

standard.