{"id":2296,"date":"2014-10-15T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2014-10-15T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:35:42","slug":"amazon-and-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/10\/amazon-and-the-new-york-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;hcxWCofPNmshtu5V4mfeJWMEKeMUb4SZ&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>I REMAIN a dedicated fan of the Gray Lady, but its recent pieces looking for some &#8220;good news&#8221; in the Amazon fight struck me as bit strange.<\/p>\n<p>Today I respond in a <a title=\"Nocera and NYT on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/15\/yes_stop_amazon_ayn_rand_false_equivalence_and_the_new_york_times\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> for Salon. It begins this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the careful-what-you-wish-for department: A bit more than a week ago, the New York Times\u2019 public editor, Margaret Sullivan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/05\/public-editor\/publishing-battle-should-be-covered-not-joined.html?_r=0\">urged her paper to bring some balance<\/a> to its coverage of Amazon and bookselling. This is not, she wrote, the story of \u201cgood and evil\u201d or \u201ca literature-killing bully.\u201d Her closing paragraph asked for a new kind of piece: \u201cI would like to see more unemotional exploration of the economic issues; more critical questioning of the statements of big-name publishing players; and greater representation of those who think Amazon may be a boon to a book-loving culture, not its killer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s right, largely: The newspaper of record needs to work very hard to look at various sides of any issue it covers, even if the anti-Amazon side has made more noise lately. But so far the stories sympathetic to Amazon have been unconvincing at best. In fact, they\u2019re starting to resemble the ass-covering pieces newspapers sometimes do to placate people in the fringes of an issue, like when nervous editors send out calls to find a scientist who doe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/220px-Nytimes_hq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/220px-Nytimes_hq.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Nytimes_hq\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>sn\u2019t believe in global warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also urge everyone to read Franklin Foer&#8217;s New Republic piece, which I refer to in mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;hcxWCofPNmshtu5V4mfeJWMEKeMUb4SZ&#8221;] I REMAIN a dedicated fan of the Gray Lady, but its recent pieces looking for some &#8220;good news&#8221; in the Amazon fight struck me as bit strange. Today I respond in a post for Salon. It begins this way: In the careful-what-you-wish-for department: A bit more than a week ago, the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[624,612,35,46,634],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-disruption","7":"category-amazon","8":"category-books","9":"category-new-york-times","10":"category-the-new-republic","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}