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...times, the most infuriating newspaper in the country. On the one hand, it's a rock of restrained, sober-minded news judgment in a media world that flies into paroxysms of excess every time an O.J. Simpson or JonBenet Ramsey comes along. Yet that same sobriety can make the paper seem stuffy and arthritic, more comfortable explicating the terms of a treaty on land mines than grappling with the latest pop-culture eruption. The Times is easily the best, most important newspaper in the country, authoritative and unfailingly serious. Yet in some fundamental way, it is also...
...deal, to the Times at least, when its 1.1 million subscribers (the third highest of any paper in the country, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today) were greeted last Monday, for the first time ever, with color photos in the daily paper. It's part of the most radical face-lift the Times has attempted in two decades. Besides adding color (which will creep from the "soft" sections onto the front page sometime in October), the Times has expanded from four to six sections on most weekdays, giving sports and arts their own daily freestanding sections...
...newspaper world, these changes are hardly revolutionary. Most papers switched to color years ago, and many already have six or more sections every day. But the Times is no ordinary newspaper. It's a bastion of traditional news values, whose slightest twist or turn can cause outcries of betrayal among loyal readers. The last upheaval came in the 1970s, when the Times introduced several new feature sections, such as living and home, and traditionalists moaned that the paper had been contaminated with trivia on artichokes and Biedermeier furniture...
...paper's guiding credo might have come from Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain: Dignity, always dignity. An early color version of the business section was reportedly sent back by top editors, who found its turquoise-and-orange charts too reminiscent of USA Today. Color in the Times will be "sophisticated," says Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper's boyishly exuberant publisher. He likes to recall a focus-group session the paper did several years ago in Connecticut. Shown some proposed changes in the Times, one woman was appalled. "I don't read the paper," she said...
...reporters to hop a plane south. Its critics can make or break a Broadway play or turn an obscure foreign film into tomorrow's hot ticket. The Times has the largest editorial staff, spends more money on newsgathering and has won more Pulitzer Prizes (74) than any other paper in the country. It may get out-hustled on a story now and then, especially when its august editors find the subject too tawdry or sensational. But for the comprehensiveness and astuteness of its journalism, top to bottom, no other paper comes close...