Murray Chass' grudge against the NYTimes knows no limits

You can make the case that Murray was unfairly pushed out the door and deserved better. You can make the case that the Times isn't what it used to be.

But when you start picking nits like this, you're just the crazy uncle who sits on the porch and randomly yells at passing cars.

From His blog:

<i>"In a recent column about the plan of The New York Times to make its venerable Sports of the Times column obsolete, I noted that the Times planned to have its beat reporters write columns instead. That’s great for the reporters, but the practice is undermining some of the most inviolable tenets of journalism.

An “One Baseball” column last week by Tyler Kepner, the Times’ Yankees beat writer, confirmed the newspaper’s new journalism. In a previous analysis, Kepner had used the unusable (for reporters) word “I.” In his more recent column he confirmed that the Times was no longer playing by its long valued standards.

Kepner seemed to go out of his way to use “I” to show that he could. In his first sentence, he wrote parenthetically, “I wish I remembered who.” The sentence added nothing to the column; the column would not have suffered without it.

At least two editors read that sentence and left it in the column, demonstrating the freedom Times reporters now have in the decline and fall of a once great newspaper.</i>

 

Get off his lawn.

 

I am speechless.

 

No, that should be <b>this poster</b> is speechless.

 

A hypothetical: If Murray Chass' grandson had sex with a female teacher, who would post it first, Smasher or Poin?

 

or " a reporter close to the situation was left speechless."

 

Since you're not a reporter Boom, maybe it should be "someone with knowledge of the situation was speechless."
Or "someone familiar with Chass' thinking was speechless."

 

"These old eyes are speechless."

 

How does Murray account for the incessant use of 'I' in his blog rants?

Just pulled this one randomly. I have no idea what he's actually talking about. Here's the first two grafs:

http://www.murraychass.com/?p=967

 

Thanks, 21. I just rubbed Cayenne pepper in my eyes.

 

You're welcome. I was going to post the whole thing.

 

I guess he figures he's no longer bound by "the inviolable tenets of journalism."