ColinMcKerlie

It's clear how enthusiastically the political reporting staff of The New York Times embraced this opportunity to boast about their access and abilities. I've only watched the first episode and I am looking forward to the rest, but I am not expecting that anything of any great substance is going to be revealed. After all, if you are interested in The New York Times, you've read all this material already. While it is of enormous importance that we have reliable news sources such as The New York Times investigating and reporting what is happening in our world, there is a whole other branch of The New York Times political staff who I suspect will have no role to play in this documentary about "the failing New York Times" in the time of Trump. Their political opinion writers really are failing. The news the paper is documented as reporting on the Trump administration in this series is important. What is more important is what we all should do about it - which is the domain of the op-ed pages. In the area of constructive criticism and proactive admonition, the opinion leaders on the payroll at the NYT are missing in action. They tell us every day they have read the news, no more. The failure of the NYT op-ed team to come up with any kind of tactics or strategy to respond to the news being reported in this documentary is the subject of my forthcoming book, "What's Wrong With The New York Times" ****. We need questions AND answers.