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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The peculiarity (problem? yes, most likely) of today's time is that what constitutes the "intelligentsia" insofar as one can claim it are the same people who spend most of their time disdaining all the old benchmarks of culture. Instead of writing articles about a gifted orchestra, they now write articles about how white the orchestra's audience is and judging the symphony for not having enough blacks in the orchestra. The music has become besides the point. That's what NPR and NYT have become. They're most definitely not what they were pre 2000, especially pre 1990.

Because of the collapse in intellectual honesty and sincerity of the American intelligentsia, we really don't have the same kind of people with the same kind of cultural hold. The best thing is for you to decide what *you* like and not follow what someone in the NYT says. If anything, I'd say do the opposite of what the NYT or NPR tells you. You can go to exhibitions on your own, you can visit museums, you can sign up for talks, you can form your own book club. And there's still plenty of genuinely intellectual writing on art and music and culture. It just won't be in the pages of the NYT. But look around more carefully and you'll find them.  [/quote]

I stopped reading the NYT 10 years ago. It's too biased and getting to be one dimensional. 
Much of old print journalism has been terrified of changing media platforms and it's obvious that the NYT has been curating what's "fit to print" towards the most marketable demographic of millennials and younger. 
I start my days with the WSJ and Financial Times. The economy generally doesn't ideological.[/quote]

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