Times Magazine of Sept. 1

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Author Message   howardf Citizen Username: Howardf Post Number: 183 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - 8:52 pm:        Has there ever been an issue as bad as this one? From the Buruma piece, which raised no new or interesting arguments or analysis (and reads like the reject it probably was from the New Yorker or New York Review of Books), to the unconscionably shallow piece of suck-up puffery on Sophia Coppolla (ooh, she has famous rich friends - what a surprise), to the vaguely amusing but ultimately pointless piece about competitive eating, to the interview with Mario Cuomo (dithering pathetic has-been - couldn't they find anyone who has done anything in the past twenty years), to a potentially interesting article about the Chinese dam project marred by vague, obscure photos (hello! ever heard of a flash?) this was the worst issue ever. Granted there are more serious things to vent about, and clearly the Times is allowed to dump off articles it probably contracted and paid for over the Labor Day weekend when fewer people read the paper, but has there ever been an issue so uniformly weak and pathetic?   wrandolph Citizen Username: Wrandolph Post Number: 20 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 5:23 am:        i read the ethicist, the last page, anything by amanda hesser and look at all the pictures ... yes, the ny times magazine IS pretty lame ... (and this from someone who spends an hour a day reading newspapers and books)