What is so special about page A-18?
This is the slogan that New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs
adopted in 1897 and still appears on the paper's masthead today.
It was Ochs' declaration of the paper's intention to report the news
impartially.
Unfortunately, the slogan remains, 120 years later, yet "impartiality"
has all but disappeared. And when any pretense of it can be found,
it is deep within the bowels
of
the first section, on page A-18, a long
way from
the commitment of Mr. Ochs.
The NY Times respectful nickname, "The Gray Lady", had its origin
from a 1951 Life magazine article
, "The Gray Lady Reaches 100"
and
has stuck till this day, with respect no doubt by its loyal readers
no matter the frequency of disrespect found on its pages.
E
ditorially, a newspaper can offer its biases in every editorial,
but
it
should also be 'fitting' that all newspapers, especially the one which
professes
to publish
"All the news that's fit to print"
,
report important
news stories nearer the front as they d
eserve rather than be relegated
to A-18,
don't you think
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