I’ve been looking at headlines in the same time period as now, and there’s a dramatic difference in the coverage of the Obama transition vs. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I even created this page that only displays the NEWS articles from the NYT front page so that I can more easily ignore the other stuff. New York Times front-page headlines, 2008 vs 2016 You can look at the front pages here (although the images are low-res so you can’t read any of the smaller text). So recently I’ve been trying to read just news. It’s too easy for me to slip from “I’m opening the NYT to stay updated on breaking news” to “I’ve been reading about holiday hams for half an hour.”Īnd this is probably by design! The NYT would prefer that you not shut your laptop when you’ve finished scanning today’s 10-15 news headlines -so they supplement it with white-collar clickbait like Shopping for Daybeds. If you like reading the non-news stuff, that’s fine! But I often feel like there’s a bait-and-switch happening when I read the NYT. Stuff about scrambled eggs, trendy wool coats, Peloton, etc. The above analysis shows that less than half of what you read when scrolling through the NYT is news. In this view, scrolling through the NYT is good, while scrolling through Instagram is bad. Thursday was a busy news day to begin with: two major Supreme Court decisions, and an acquittal of a police officer in the Freddie Gray case all of which constituted front-page news. I think some people view “reading the news” as an educational activity-reading the news means being informed, it means being a good citizen, it means being educated.
We won’t solve the “are editorials news?” debate here, but it raises a more interesting question: What are we doing when we read the news? Forty-two memorable front pages from the past year, picked by editors on the news desk who oversee the content, design and production of.
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