DEATH SPIRAL FOR THE PAPER OF RECORD?
Even Slate is ridiculing the New York Times now! How long can this go on? No, my headline was wishful thinking, I don't think the NYT will be unseated as the Paper of Record just yet, because there's still a critical mass of people who think you have to read it to know what other NYT readers are reading; so the NYT continues to dump its distortions on our heads, as if by divine right. In finance, this phenomenon is called a "bubble." (I support the dump-Cheney position, btw, but that's beside the point.)