poetry and story inn fridays week 44; the new york times newspaper

Print newspaper

In the absence of a major headline, the day's most important story generally appears in the top-right column, on the main page. The typefaces used for the headlines are custom variations of Cheltenham. The running text is set at 8.7 point Imperial.



In 2012, The New York Times introduced a Chinese-language news site, cn.nytimes.com, with content created by staff based in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, though the server was placed outside of China to avoid censorship issues.^[170] In March 2013, The New York Times and National Film Board of Canada announced a partnership titled A Short History of the Highrise, which will create four short documentaries for the Internet about life in highrise buildings as part of the NFB's Highrise project, utilizing images from the newspaper's photo archives for the first three films, and user-submitted images for the final film.^[171] The third project in the series, "A Short History of the Highrise", won a Peabody Award in 2013



In June 2012, The New York Times launched its first official foreign-language variant, cn.nytimes.com, in Chinese,^[197] viewable in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. The project was led by Craig S. Smith on the business side and Philip P. Pan on the editorial side.
The site's initial success was interrupted in October that year following the publication of an investigative article^[b] by David Barboza about the finances of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's family.^[198] In retaliation for the article, the Chinese government blocked access to both nytimes.com and cn.nytimes.com inside the People's Republic of China (PRC).


The New York Times editorial page is often regarded as liberal.^[209][15] In mid-2004, the newspaper's then public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, wrote that "the Op-Ed page editors do an evenhanded job of representing a range of views in the essays from outsiders they publish – but you need an awfully heavy counterweight to balance a page that also bears the work of seven opinionated columnists, only two of whom could be classified as conservative (and, even then, of the conservative subspecies that supports legalization of gay unions and, in the case of William Safire, opposes some central provisions of the Patriot Act)."^[210]
The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican Party member for president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956; since 1960, it has endorsed the Democratic Party nominee in every presidential election (see New York Times presidential endorsements).^[211] However, the New York Times did endorse incumbent moderate Republican mayors of New York City Rudy Giuliani in 1997^[212] and Michael Bloomberg in 2005^[213] and 2009.^[214] The Times also endorsed Republican New York state governor George Pataki for re-election in 2002.^[215]
The New York Times editorial board condemned President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as "abrupt and dangerous".

Hiring practices

In April 2016, two black female employees in their sixties filed a federal class action lawsuit against The New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson and chief revenue officer Meredith Levien, claiming age, gender, and racial discrimination. The plaintiffs claimed that the Times advertising department favored younger white employees over older black employees in making firing and promotion decisions.^[273][274] The Times said that the suit was "entirely without merit" and was "a series of recycled, scurrilous and unjustified attacks."^[274]

    Jayson Blair

     Mark Thompson
                Meredith kopit Levien

The fragrant air is full of down,
Of floating, fleecy things
From some forgotten fairy town
Where all the folk wear wings.


the end of may by Katharine Lee Bates