It's sad to see a newspaper die, and the New York Sun occupied a special niche. I visited the Sun about a year ago, and was perfectly charmed by the stunningly retro environment...
... and all the wonderful, dedicated people there.
September 30, 2008
"Our last number will be the issue dated September 30, the first day of Rosh Hashanah."
Goodbye to the New York Sun.
It's sad to see a newspaper die, and the New York Sun occupied a special niche. I visited the Sun about a year ago, and was perfectly charmed by the stunningly retro environment...
... and all the wonderful, dedicated people there.
It's sad to see a newspaper die, and the New York Sun occupied a special niche. I visited the Sun about a year ago, and was perfectly charmed by the stunningly retro environment...
... and all the wonderful, dedicated people there.
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And they had a crossword that competed with the Times for quality and often exceeded it. Bummer.
Bunch of homophobic pricks - every single one of them. Good riddance.
да, downtownlad, rid the goodance!
You and I, Победы tovaritsch, understand. They do not speak the PC rules from Party! Criminals!
What is need for more newspaper?
Everything in the Party, Nothing outside the Party!
I'm guessing the reason they had such a retro atmosphere was that their business wasn't' doing well enough to afford something better. While it might be cool to look at old stuff, its worth remembering that retro is a synonym for obsolete.
They can think whatever they want. But I have a one word response.
Schadenfreude.
Homophobic pricks: long may they live
And give lefty freaks heartburn:
Giving back as good as antinomians give
Till once again sanity returns.
Given the decline in journalistic quality and profitablity of the New York Times, I suspect the same thing would be happening to them if they did not have decades of institutional inertia behind them.
Speaking of Rosh Hashannah,
L'shana tova, y'all!
A southern Cuban Jew? :-)
How is the fact that 30 September is the 1st day of Rosh Hashanah relevant to the story? It isn't. Unless jews are somehow responsible for the demise. Cedarford?
Or is there some aspect of Rosh Hashanah that makes a newspaper closure on the same day somehow ironic?
I forgot it was Rosh Hoshanna today (and I'm a Jew).
I had pork chops for dinner.
mcg said...
A southern Cuban Jew? :-)
9:23 AM
Juban!
Well, kinda :)
There's insufficient market for hard news, whether you like it or not; not so much market that it supports a business model, which is what that means. City council meetings readership doesn't pay the bills.
With one-off events of great interest, there's no problem. But you need an audience every day, news or no news.
Hence the trend to soft news, to catch the core soft news audience.
That's all there is for commercial development. It's that or nothing.
The idea that there's no hard news and let's start such a paper is noble but is not going to work, at least in a traditional way.
I'm told it was right after your visit, that the trouble began.
Have Althouse visit your headquarters.....--the kiss of death.
Pardon me, if I don't invite you into my home.
I liked to read the Sun online. It was straight forward reporting and very little fluff.
As to Rosh Hashanah, I beleive the paper had either Jewish ownership or the publisher/editor is Jewish.
downtownlad said...
Bunch of homophobic pricks - every single one of them. Good riddance.
Coming from a heterophobic prick who will not be missed.
I couldn't give a fuck about breeders.
a dreadful newspaper; atavistic, tribal, effete. the apotheosis of the mccain / likudnik view of the world: 'the only thing they understand is force'. this statement maid while wearing a yarmulke and a bow tie - most unpleasant.
how sweet that they closed down the week that olmert finally spoke some sense.
"I couldn't give a fuck about breeders."
Well, how did you get here?
ann's musical taste is frozen! if my math is correct, her three favorite bands were all at their height when she was at college. i know this is a common phenomenon, but it is pernicious.
free ann's ipod!
Ann Althouse said...
"I couldn't give a fuck about breeders."
Well, how did you get here?
10:11 AM
Cloning gone wrong, very wrong, like Alpha and michael.
downtownlad said...
I couldn't give a fuck about breeders.
Even the ones that bred you? Little man, without breeders, you wouldn't be wasting the same oxygen I have to breath. It's prurient homosexuals like you that give homosexuality a bad name. You don't care and why should you? Your malignant narcissism is rampant in the homosexual enclaves you delve in. It's all about you, honey. Everything else is an accessory.
But hey, who am I too judge considering your little fat ass is always open for business. How is that pillow biting coming along. Getting better?
downtownlad said...
I forgot it was Rosh Hoshanna today (and I'm a Jew).
I had pork chops for dinner.
A pig eating a pig. They call that cannibalism.
Ann Althouse said...
"I couldn't give a fuck about breeders."
Well, how did you get here?
Ann. Asking DTL how he got here is kindergarten redux.
I wonder how much the loft space they occupied is going for? Looks nice.
I got here because my parents fucked.
But that doesn't mean I give a fuck about them.
Get your logic straight Ann.
So methadras is an anti-semite homophobe.
Shocker.
And they wonder why I'm disgusted with breeders.
Ah, comrade downtownlad has korrect idea about useless family.
No need for them when there is loving arms of Party.
Even now we can make the babies in test tube. Parents are зло evil, because they might teach against Party. Sex is for only fun; should be crime if it make family.
The New York Sun was a huge proponent of repealing Lawrence V. Texas, and imprisoning gay people for having sex in the privacy of their own home.
I am allowed to say "screw them".
I don't have to like breeders who try to micromanage my life. At the same time, I don't tell breeders that they have to like gay people. But let's be straight, breeders declared war on gay people first.
It is amusing though, then when people disagree with me, they have to choose to slander whole groups instead of just criticizing me.
Mathadras chose to say that all Jews are pigs and that all gays are narcissistic sluts.
Telling.
Brother to Russian novelist Толстой Tolstoy he write:
"Every family is unhappy in its own way because they exist. Are no happy families. Death to селекционеров breeders making family!"
I never said "death to breeders".
I said I don't like them.
Why do you give a fuck what kind of people I like or don't like? I let breeders live their lives as they see fit though, which is more respect than they'll ever give to gay people.
Good. Another one bites the dust. With luck the rest of them will fail soon.
"I never said "death to breeders"."
My брат brother, peace! We are on same side, I and you. The sex is for entertainments only.
You say do not give the fuck about those that have sex for to get child. Me also to say!
Is the Party decide how the children get socialismed, not for breeders.
DTL is plus good аппаратчиком apparatchik.
Sheesh, talk about thread drift. I thought the topic was the NY Sun, not breeders...
Anyway: Is it just me, or does that newsroom look like the one used at the end of "The Devil Wears Prada"? You know, the one where Anne Hathaway's character gets interviewed for her post Miranda Priestly's assistant position? I swear, the resemblance is more than superficial, but I've only seen the movie once, so I'm not sure if it's just because it's a typical newsroom, or if it's because it was actually the location that scene was shot.
My loft in New York has 3 rooms that size, not to mention the three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
I miss that place. Sure glad I rented it out, before this financial debacle hit.
Дорогой Товарич ПОССУМ. Nyet! НИЗТ! Remember patriotic Article 121.1 of glorious CCCP Конституция! DTL must live in клосеыт, not enjoy the sex!
Know that I do, dear friend. But not DTL. The sex of two mens can be used in his trial.
Until then, much useful he can be!
downtownlad said...
So methadras is an anti-semite homophobe.
Shocker.
And they wonder why I'm disgusted with breeders.
You do know that I laugh at you when you so transparently resort to your victimization shtick, right? I called you a pig. You are a pig. Your Jewishness is irrelevant. You could have well have said this:
"I forgot it was Rosh Hoshanna today (and I'm a [fill in the blank for ethnicity])." and I would have still have called you a pig. Do you know why you are a pig? Because you live in your own mental filth. You are a debauched, gluttonous, sow of a dead-ender who only cares about one thing and one thing only, himself. Your malignant narcissism is the suit you wear. You insult Jews by proclaiming you are one. You insult homosexuals by being one. They don't like you no more than I do. Any rational homosexual that I know would have seen you for the phony you are and would have discarded you like the sad sack of used meat you've become.
Don't lay your petty wishes of hatred on me. I don't play your stupid victim game. Oh no, he called me a Jew. Oh no he called me a pig. Oh no he called me gay. What shall I do. Woe unto me. Oh, I know I'll call him an anti-semitic homophobe. Yeah, that's it. Why even acknowledge that which you hate, us breeders, hmmm? Why would a dead-ender like you even care? What's the matter, haven't figured out a way to completely burn-out in a blaze of homosexual debauchery that will end in no one even caring you existed a week after your gone? You will leave nothing behind. No legacy and nothing of relevance that matters. That is the lot in life you chose, don't shit-squirt back on people you turned your back on, pig.
You're a useless, deranged, and malevolent idiot. Uncunning and yet just stupid enough to be a danger to others. Just do people here a favor and go away. Evaporate into the thin night air of your backwater cruising alleyways where you probably have to pay people to be your friend instead of the other way around. oink-oink little piggy.
"It Shines For All" was always one of my favorite company motto's. Too bad it's over for them. Not a great time to be job-seeking in any industry, much less the journo trade.
The thing I remember most about your pictures at the offices of The Sun is this hunk of man, Joseph Goldstein. Rowr! L'shana tova indeed.
"Anyway: Is it just me, or does that newsroom look like the one used at the end of "The Devil Wears Prada"? "
Click on the link to my visit to the offices and you'll have your answer.
Ah, yes! I hadn't seen (or simply didn't remember) that post.
Thanks, professor! I thought it looked like that.
Palladian said...
The thing I remember most about your pictures at the offices of The Sun is this hunk of man, Joseph Goldstein. Rowr! L'shana tova indeed.
2:56 PM
Cheater!!
My dear Ernie, I thought you had gone to the dark side with that English broad!
If not, then I'm yours! I much prefer chorizo to kosher frankfurters.
"I couldn't give a fuck about breeders."
Well, how did you get here?
Ah, those breeders he hates most of all.
Crime-in-Italy, with the New York Sun gone what are we going to read now when we want to know the Likud line. Oh wait, I forgot. The New York Times is alive and well.
"Crime-in-Italy, with the New York Sun gone what are we going to read now when we want to know the Likud line. Oh wait, I forgot. The New York Times is alive and well."
Those wily Jews! They're everywhere. Duscany, have you met Cedarford?
Palladian said...
[...] Duscany, have you met Cedarford?
7:37 PM
They both go to the same meetings, my dear.
um, it's "The Devil Wore PRAVDA."
Which makes much more sense.
Interesting how in that thread a year ago AL was full blown in irrelevancies.
Pallidan: "Those wily Jews! They're everywhere. Duscany, have you met Cedarford?"
I don't know. Was he the guy stoning Palestinian villagers on YouTube last week?
Duscany said...
Pallidan: "Those wily Jews! They're everywhere. Duscany, have you met Cedarford?"
I don't know. Was he the guy stoning Palestinian villagers on YouTube last week?
11:45 PM
No, he's the guy with the white hood sitting next to you in those meetings where you love to wear your kafiyeh. You just can't see his face because his head is hideen and yors in way up in your ass.
CORRECTION:
You just can't see his face because his head is hidden and yours in way up in your ass.
erniecu73: "No, he's the guy with the white hood sitting next to you in those meetings where you love to wear your kafiyeh. You just can't see his face because his head is hideen and yors in way up in your ass."
Oh my God, the settler Taliban, here on Althouse. Don't you guys ever sleep? Go cut down another olive tree or something.
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