I've been reading The Times for 25 years, and no doubt they'll line my coffin with it. It's the paper of record -- AND it's far from perfect. I can live with both of those facts.
Yes, the Jayson Blair case was shameful, it didn't confront the Bushies strongly enough before the invasion of Iraq (hey, my son's stationed in Iraq, so I have the license to beef about this more than most), and I suspect Arthur Sulzberger Jr. really is a weasel.
But it remains a serious paper: thorough, detailed, and filled with some of the best damn writers around, matched only, in my view, by the Financial Times and The Economist. (If you've never read either of these, please don't reply with accusations of elitism.)
Anyway, my intention isn't to defend The Times. I just wanted to elicit a chuckle with this list of Newspaper Reader Profiles that's been hanging on my wall for years. I don't know its provenance -- a cursory look online didn't turn up the source -- but read it and laugh. It beats bitching.
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