Oh no, I just canceled my subscription to the NYTimes and now I’ll miss out on the cutting-edge insights into the Democratic Party from top consultants like Mark Penn, Pat Caddell, and former Governor Al Smith.
Mark Penn's complaining is the most hopeful sign I've seen in months that Biden will be re-elected. (I joke - but if you actually want someone to be on the outside of your campaign pissing in, rather than vice-versa, it is Mark Penn)
You can also get a Sunday home delivery subscription and put yourself on permanent vacation hold by updating every couple months. They charge you $0 and you get access to ... everything,
Apparently they're desperate for subscribers: I got an all access subscription including games & cooking for $4/month last year and when I canceled they offered me the same plan/rate. So I reupped for games & cooking. A little more than the games subscription.
If I find a recipe I want that's behind a NYT paywall, I usually google the same wording and it's posted elsewhere for free. I actually want to support journalism and I don't mind paying, but they lost me some time ago.
There is a workaround. www.nytbee.com posts the Spelling Bee every day. You have to write out your answers the old fashioned way with pen and paper, but the site tells you exactly how many points you need to make Genius.
Colin Jost: “Wordle is here tonight. Sorry, sorry, I meant the New York Times. I forgot they do stuff in addition to puzzles. I have to say: It’s not a great sign when the only thing keeping a print media company alive are games people play on their phones."
I'm a bear of little brain, but any presidential campaign pundit whose contact book is full of 'strategists' and 'consultants' who haven't been even tangentially involved in a winning top-tier campaign for decades? You might be in the wrong profession.
At this point in the NYT editorial arc, I'd cancel my subscription in a heartbeat, but Spouse wants to keep it. And it's Mothers' Day and she's a mother, so...🤔➡️😒➡️🤷
I stay because the international section is great and, AFAICT, irreplaceable, except maybe with the WaPo, which sucks in the same way, or the WSJ, which... should be obvious.
I feel like: as a presser, you need to connect with the yoot more. Approximately one in twenty thousand of them know who Pat Caddell is (was). Berle Breathed had his number decades ago.
