This fall’s 16 tours sold out in 20 minutes.
It was even crazier for the spring tours, which sold out in seven minutes.
One has to be a member of the New York Transit Museum to even have a chance, but a few good pictures of it is the next best thing.
“I saw that the due date was the 11th of October, 1933,” said Wheeler Morgan. “I thought, ‘my God.’”
“Salmon are fascinating in that they are just constantly curious, and are always sort of probing and waiting to take advantage of a newly suitable habitat,” says Westley [some guy from the University of Alaska]. “What seems to be happening is that these Arctic rivers are just now starting to become suitable. I think about them as sort of being ‘hopeful’ colonists in past years, that maybe now either are successful—or are on the cusp of being successful—in terms of reproducing and establishing populations.”
…the New York Times this morning published a half-hearted mea culpa for getting the story about the Gazan hospital so wrong. Gee, they say, it's really hard covering news from war zones so we have to go with whatever random rumors we read on social media (or words to that effect…read it for yourself).
Folks, the news business…and it is a business, never forget…is not about news. It's about selling toothpaste (and, in the case of the New York Times, stuff from Gucci). Eyeballs are everything.
If they wait (this is not an excuse…it's an explanation) until they know what they're talking about somebody else will get your eyeballs and their advertisers' bucks.
It's hard to cover news from war zones. It's even harder to know what the news is.
A guest editorial by Elizabeth Speers in yesterday's New York Times about the present blizzard of opinions concerning events in the Middle East, quoted here at length:
Knee-jerk social media posts are not what bother me most, though. Instead, it’s the idea that not posting is wrong somehow — that everyone needs to speak, all the time. It discourages shutting up and listening and letting the voices that matter the most be heard over the din. It implies it’s not OK to have any uncertainty about what’s going on or any kind of moral analysis that does not lend itself to presentation in a social media post. It does not leave time or space for people to process traumatic events in the sanctuary of their own minds or to gather more information before pronouncing a judgment. It pressures people who don’t have an opinion yet or are working out what they think to manufacture one and present it to a jury of total strangers on the internet who will render an instant verdict on its propriety.
The entire editorial (assuming this link works) is here.
Read and listen.
"a diplomatic official told The Post Saturday, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss sensitive negotiations."
