N Y Times Is Read Everywhere

I thought I ought to post something to et things rolling.

My first encounter with the N Y Times occurred in the mid 1950's living in East Greenwich, RI. She would buy the Sunday edition about three times a month to supplement the Providence Journal. Once a month, she would get the N Y Herald-Tribune. And then whenever we visited my great-aunt on Cape Cod, she would buy a Boston Post (long defunct) in preparation.

I encountered a newspaper without comics, important to a nine year old. But I remember leafing through the Sunday Magazine and the arts section, as well as reading aboout the 100 Neediest cases in the Christmas season. Even more, I started reading the New York Times Book Review, seeing if there were any good children's books, and beginning to get interested in adult books, or at least reading about them.

My consistent reading of the New York Times occurred when I moved to Detroit in 1971. I wanted to keep a better link to the east. The Boston Globe has always been a very difficult paper to find outside of New England, so I started buying the N Y Times every day, and I subscribed to the Boston edition of the Christian Science Monitor, which in those days had a New England edition (not just an east coast edition) with a liberal share of Boston articles. Eventually the CSM cancelled the NewEngland edition because it required lcoal reporters to keep up, and the CSM just wanted to report news with national or globa impact.

The two Detroit papers, the Free Press and the Detroit News are not among the great newspapers of the U.S. - I remember reading about 3,000 people a day in Detroit bought the N Y Times (as compared with only 1,000 papers combined from Chicago - Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily News, Today).

Some time in the early or mid-1980's, the New York Times began publishing a national edition, with much of the sports pages, and the local New York news stripped out. For a while, even news about Broadway was severely reduced until the NYT realized that many people from around the U.S. travel to NYC for its theater. For about 2-3 years, we in Detroit had to suffer the ignominy of paying more for a stripped NYT while Torontans got the full New York edition airshipped to them.

I lived 1993-97 in Indianapolis, where the NYT is easily available, but not read as much as the Chicago Tribune.

I've lived on Long Island for ten years, and have the NYT delivered daily. Most people on Long Island only read the Newsday.

I live in Los Angeles and I got hooked on Frank Rich's column and Michiko Kakutani's book reviews when I was in high school. As soon as I got my first job, I decided to buy a student subscription to the Times. It made me feel like an adult. I've read the paper religiously since 2002, and, like all relationships, my relationship with the Times is love/hate. I enjoy reading about the internal politics of the paper in Editor and Publisher, the New York Observer, and Romenesko.

I could save a nice chunk of money by reading the paper online for free, but I care about the newspaper industry and I want to do what I can to help it out. Plus, there's nothing like holding the paper in my hands and stumbling across hidden gems that I'd never read if I only saw the headline on a computer screen.

Now my favorite features are Paul Krugman's and Frank Rich's columns, book reviews, obituaries, Louis Uchitelle's economic coverage, the public editor's column, and the international news section.

Hi All,

*jumps up and down*

Can I join please? MY BA is in Journalism but the actual working at a newspaper days are long over I'm afraid. I LOVE the NY Times. It's up daily online at the office (my link to sanity) and I have the Sunday edition delivered - and believe me I must love it to pay the price charged here in The Bahamas.