NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated to NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. The paper’s print version has the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the United States of America. The New York Times is ranked 39th in the world by circulation. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation has fallen to fewer than one million daily since 1990. Nicknamed “The Gray Lady”, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national “newspaper of record”. It has been owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family since 1896; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., the publisher of the Times and the chairman of the New York Times Company, is the fourth generation of the family to helm the paper. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition. (More from Wikipedia)
The interview with the “we’re more popular than Jesus now” quotation raised few eyebrows until it created a firestorm when the interviews were reprinted in the American teen magazine Datebook in July 1966, with the John Lennon quotation placed on the magazine cover. On August 5, 1966, the story made the front page of the New York Times. Some radio DJ’s publicly announced that they would play no more Beatles songs, and there were bonfires of Beatles records in some areas; even the Ku Klux Klan joined in the protests. There were also protests in Mexico City, and Beatles songs were banned on national radio stations in South Africa and Spain.
(September 2014)
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From Wikipedia: “When Hurricane Katrina and its storm surge devastated much of the U.S. Gulf Coast in [August-]September 2005, the MSNBC news program, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, dubbed its coverage of the hurricane, ‘Katrina and the Waves’; the name also appeared in numerous headlines and blog postings. A New York Times reporter contacted Katrina Leskanich [of Katrina and the Waves], who said: ‘The first time I opened the paper and saw “Katrina kills 9”, it was a bit of a shock. . . . I hope that the true spirit of “Walking on Sunshine” will prevail. I would hate for the title to be tinged with sadness, and I will have to do my own part to help turn that around.’” She had the same or similar sentiments posted on her website for several months. Anyway, I still hear “Walking on Sunshine” on the radio frequently, and it has the same joyful spirit to me.
(March 2016)
