NYTImes redux

Here you can find a letter to the Times from Mediamatters.org which includes the following:


"This is especially important now, at a time when the current administration has, for all intents and purposes, declared open war on the very idea of an independent press. The administration's conservative allies have simultaneously endeavored to impose a post-modern ideology of doctrinaire relativism on the media, so that all news is seen as ideological and there is no common set of facts on which we can all agree. In this context, the "he said-she said" trap into which the Times and other news organizations so regularly fall becomes particularly pernicious."

And here we find that the Times will start charging for certain online features:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050516/165886.html?.v=1

Well, I can only hope that they use the money to actually start covering some news again.