Monday, July 11, 2005

Editors' note: the Times styles sections

Both of us hate the New York Times styles sections. Since this blog's early weeks, we have posted twice-weekly critiques that parse and condemn the styles sections' linguistic and substantive atrocities.

But spending so much time on the styles sections sucks. We hate these sections. We're talking serious hatred here. It's not fun to spend 10 or 11 hours at work, and then spend another couple of hours lambasting Etros shirts and mocking the travails of cokehead hairdressers. Time after time, the once-great New York Times has sacrificed its credibility to appease high-end advertisers. Our point is amply proved, and we're both sick of making it.

Hence, we are taking a hiatus from our twice-weekly, line-by-line parsing of the styles sections. We will continue to monitor and attack the styles sections, but instead of the current encyclopedic approach, we will post more limited and efficient critiques.

To aid future social historians studying the decline of America's journalism and the fall of its middle class, here is the authoritative index of Cole Slaw Blog's styles section roundups:
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