Word: medias
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...implied - and, Times bosses hope, staved off - by the recent announcement that next year the paper will begin charging for online access. The Times is possibly the most authoritative paper in the world and the most influential online, with 17 million monthly readers. It's done well in most media - except the print medium that's green and is issued by the U.S. Mint...
...Times is in the same fix as most other old-media outlets, including this magazine. Online ads don't bring in enough to support the massive news operation that attracts those 17 million people. Last year, the Times won five Pulitzer Prizes - and borrowed $250 million from a Mexican billionaire to keep the lights on. (See the top 10 newspaper movies...
...what the Times symbolizes to the media is nothing next to its outsize symbolism in the larger world. Entire websites are dedicated to critiquing it. To certain conservatives, it's a liberal Manhattan rag and élitists' pedestal; to certain progressives, it's a ruling-class newsletter and corporate tool (not contradictory charges, considering the Times's roots in liberal, moneyed New York City...
Beyond politics, though, the Times is a symbol of the Establishment: it presents expert authority in a populist age that sees establishments as enemies and experts as fools. The Times has always been a chronicle of power. This used to be a selling point; today, as for the media's other big institutions, it's cause for suspicion. (See the 10 most endangered newspapers in America...
...Media institution is indispensable: not the Times, not the evening news, not TIME magazine. People don't owe us their money; we owe it to them to be worth paying for. If we go, people will find other sources to trust; in some cases, they already have...