{"id":825,"date":"2010-03-05T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=825"},"modified":"2010-03-23T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T23:09:09","slug":"new-york-times-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/03\/05\/new-york-times-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, we got The New York Times<\/em><\/span> delivered\u00a0 every day on our doorstep.\u00a0 I’ve been reading the Times<\/em>, more or less consistently, for something like thirty years.\u00a0 I clearly remember their coverage of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example; real reporting which you can only get from a real newspaper, a tradition which CJ Chivers and Tyler Hicks and others ably carry on.\u00a0 To me, it’s “The Times<\/em>” like “the city” is New York and “the shore” is the Jersey shore.<\/p>\n

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When we moved to southern California we thought of the Times <\/em>as a link back to civilization and never really seriously considered the LA Times<\/em>.\u00a0 Los Angeles, it turns out, is distant anyway; I still go to Boston more than LA.<\/p>\n

But now we’re down to a Sunday only home delivery for The New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s the usual combination of factors; the nagging, intimidating pile of unread papers, the fact that I read the important articles online anyway, and the garbage\/recycling problem.<\/p>\n

Having just Sunday delivery, though, comes with still-significant side benefits, including access to the online archives and a pass for the upcoming paywall that’s been discussed so much.\u00a0 (I did some consulting for the Times<\/em> online ten or fifteen years ago; they were struggling with these problems then, and the people haven’t changed.)\u00a0 But I just discovered another benefit: access to the daily Times Digest<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Digest looks to me like the descendant of faxed versions of the paper that you used to get in nice hotels that didn’t have local delivery of the Times <\/em>or the International Herald Tribune<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s nine pages (8.5″x11″) long, delivered as a .pdf via email every night.\u00a0 There are one or two black & white photos, a crossword puzzle (very important; some people will want this just for the crossword), and some summary financial tables but the whole thing is very text-heavy.\u00a0 To me, it feels reassuringly old-fashioned, the way I remember the paper before it got taken over by the absurdly offensive Style section.<\/p>\n

The articles themselves are summaries and fit onto part of a single page.\u00a0 The emphasis is on hard news but without local New York city politics, which makes it similar to the IHT<\/em>, another great Times<\/em> side-project.\u00a0 (I think I love the IHT<\/em> more than The Times<\/em>; somehow Suzy Menkes is okay.)\u00a0 Plus, it’s short enough that I can quickly flip through it and feel like I got the benefit of seeing what the editors wanted to highlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, we got The New York Times delivered\u00a0 every day on our doorstep.\u00a0 I’ve been reading the Times, more or less consistently, for something like thirty years.\u00a0 I clearly remember their coverage of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-dj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}