Disgrace

As a loyal reader, I am very disappointed in The New York Times for the way it chose to report the details about "Kristen," the 22-year-old escort in whose company the New York state governor, Eliot Spitzer, was caught.

The renown news media spent 6-days’ worth of front page real estate for wanton debauchery over a famed personality’s transgressions. To be sure to cut through demographic differences, The Times painstakingly (and unforgivingly) offered its readership details with classic black-and-white articles and innovative colorful multi-media tools all over its website.

However, as shocking as the incident was and as diligent as The New York Times is, the news organization’s reporting has quite unfortunately been devoid of any journalistic value.

What happened to the millions of people dying of hunger, warfare and disease in the rest of the world? What happened to the brilliant people that shined light into others’ lives? Does nothing else but ruinous gossip merit reporting anymore in this day and age?

By indulging in wasteful expenditure of time and resources over a governor’s sex scandal, The Times has become negligent of the critical and urgent matters that are happening around the world.

I would even dare say that The New York Times is complicit with the perpetuation of chaos, hopelessness and futility in the neediest parts of the world (as well as this country) by its failure to exercise the care and integrity expected of a well-respected journalistic organization.

Let’s not ask what is newsworthy, as this word has been frivolously subjected to incomprehensible standards nowadays.

Let’s get to the very basic:
What is NEWS anymore?

I am gravely disappointed in The New York Times for having degraded itself to the level of common gossip tabloids -- not unlike those situated strategically by cashier stands at neighborhood corner stores to resuscitate brain-dead, almost comatose shoppers waiting to pay and zombie out.