NY Times: Today’s P*ssy Parents Are All Bark, No Bite

Here’s your ridiculous New York Times trend piece of the day: pussified modern parents, shamed into pussification by their equally pussified peers, have shunned spanking their children for screaming at them, because yelling “You colored all over the wall I just painted you stupid little asshole!” is so much better for a child’s emotional development than a whack on the bottom. Yes, this makes perfect sense. Read more »

NY Times Story Kills ‘Best Kept Secret’ In Brooklyn

Last week, the New York Times’ Fort Greene blog blew the cover off a “secret underground climbing gym” by publishing, then deleting the story, ensuring maximum exposure. Now, according to commenters, the “bizarre hybrid of subterranean climbing gym and hippie speakeasy” has been shut down. An ex-climber from the once covert space confirms, via email, that “the gym was closed due to this story. It is uncertain when or if it will ever be open again,” making Jed Lipinski the most hated man in Brooklyn. Well, to these people below at least. Read more »

New York Times Buries Urban Climbing Story

Apparently, if you’re going to infiltrate and blog about covert underground operations, say a subterranean rock climbing lair, you should get permission to blow up the spot first. “This is both the neighborhood-y, Local thing to do and simple journalistic ethics,” according to The Local, the Times’ Fort Greene/Clinton Hill-based blog. The site unpublished yesterday’s story about a “secret underground climbing gym.” Unfortunately, redacting the post about “one of the best kept secrets in Brooklyn” only generates more interest and it’s not like you can hide the cache (props!). Or the screengrab presented in its entirety after the jump. Read more »

Times Attempts To “Tantalize” Readers, Fails

So the editors over at the Times‘ ‘Moment’ blog figured their readers would be so impressed with the above “unauthorized shot” of the cover for their upcoming, 302 page, fall issue of T magazine—officially drops Saturday. But the fresh out the box image featuring a bizarrely, goth-like styled Rachel McAdams wearing dark lipstick and peering stoically had quite the opposite effect, including this commenter right off the bat, “I could have waited until Saturday for that cover.” Click over for the rest of the slightly amusing critiques. |TheMoment|

NYT Changes Headline Suggesting Obama As King Leonidas

Toady, the New York Times ran a story about Barack Obama’s several hundred person strong army of advisers with the headline: “Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy,” but have since changed it to “300 Advisers Shape Obama’s Foreign Policy.” Maybe editors at the Times were worried its readers would be confused and assume the Democratic presidential candidate consults with a contingent of buff, Spartan-dressed thespians? |NYT|

Osama Been Pixelated

The New York Times has an op-ed piece about using YouTube to fight Al Qaeda’s increasingly popular “brand” of viral video terror or something: “The genius of Al Qaeda was to combine real-world mayhem with virtual marketing. The group’s guerrilla media network supports a family of brands, from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (in Algeria and Morocco) to the Islamic State of Iraq, through a daily stream of online media products that would make any corporation jealous.” We didn’t actually read the whole thing through, being more impressed with this eBoy-like pixel version of Osama bin Laden. |NYT|

New York Times Research Formula Uncovered

Forget those corny Mediabistro courses, here’s your inside media lesson on a typical bullshit New York Times construct. Invent the story first then send out a mass email trying to prove it’s true! Home section journalist Penelope Green fired off this solicitation for “reporting help!” to assist her in finding the alleged tribes of urban camping activist New Yorkers.