{"id":94528,"date":"2016-05-01T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94528"},"modified":"2016-05-01T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:54:42","slug":"how-to-read-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94528","title":{"rendered":"How To Read The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-congos-small-little-mini-war-the-nyts-fear-of-admitting-an-interest-in-human-biodiversity\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>One of the curious aspects of New York Times articles is that they are often organized in the reverse order of how the same material would be reported in, say, the Daily Mail. NYT articles tend to start off boring and depressing, with only vague hints of why the reporter is interested in the subject, and don\u2019t get to the good stuff until late in the article, by which point, no doubt, most readers have given up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What would the Daily Mail\u2019s headline look like? Something like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pygmies Firing Poisoned Arrows Rebel against Exploiting Slavers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019d be about four sub-headlines about adultery and murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: One of the curious aspects of New York Times articles is that they are often organized in the reverse order of how the same material would be reported in, say, the Daily Mail. 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