Posts Tagged: This Thing Looks Like That Thing BECAUSE IT IS THAT THING
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All Your Complaints About the 'Times'? They're 100 Years Old

I was shocked that a huge number of people were so quick to mock the New York Times for the paper's suggestion that, hey, maybe its writers should wait more than six months after the invention of a new, trendy term to start casually using it in the newspaper. Are people in the year 2020 or 2050 really going to know what the word 'Tweet' means? Who knows? This "stodginess" is just one of the top common complaints about the Times. So we've taken a long look back at the paper in 1910 and 1911, and found pretty much everything there that people complain about now: it's beholden [...]