Customer Reviews for The New York Times Newspaper, National Edition

New York Times - National Edition


NYTimes makes a wonderful gift, November 4, 2006
By Jennifer Harper "graduate student" (Athens, GA USA)

This review is from: New York Times - National Edition (Magazine)

If you are trying to find the perfect gift for one of the intelligent, hard-to-gift persons on your list, a subscription to the New York Times may be a well-received solution.

I had requested a subscription to the New York Times for every occasion (birthday, Christmas, Valentines, etc.) for the past three years, and every year until Christmas 2005, my family and friends disregarded the paper as an odd, if not un-giftable, item to request. Fortunately, my fiance's mother and sister decided to go into a 12-week subscription together. I look forward to Sunday mornings as though each one were a new Christmas. The blue plastic bag in the drive way is a cause for celebration each week-end morning. After the first 12 weeks of the year, I became so accustomed to my week-end ritual of the paper, coffee and Meet the Press that I made room in my own budget to include the price of the subscription.

I prefer the New York Times over other news publications for a very simple reason: it is written to my level and I never feel as though the writers are talking down to me or simplifying the story. I have heard cries of liberal bias concerning this publication, especially the editorials, but when I read this paper, I get the sense that they really want me to know and understand all sides to a story. Few newspapers devote space to complete copies of primary documents (speeches, proposed bills and amendments, etc.) like the New York Times consistently does and this allows me to make up my own opinion on the issues.


The BEST U.S. Newspaper, March 7, 2006
By Loyd E. Eskildson "Pragmatist" (Phoenix, AZ.)

This review is from: New York Times - National Edition (Magazine)
News is well researched and balanced, and I especially like their columnists such as Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Bob Herbert, and Maureen Dowd. In addition there is the excellent weekly NYT Book Review, and the occasional scoop - eg. the NSA spying flap.


Along With The WSJ, The 2 Best Daily Newspapers In The USA, April 9, 2005
By G. Reid (Roseland, NJ)

This review is from: New York Times - National Edition (Magazine)
Don't miss the science section published each Tuesday.

The New York Times gives you great stories in depth from around the world. It is the detailed stories and some investigative stories that you can't find anyplace else that are so refreshing to read. Compared to the screaming cable news shows, the news presented in the NYT and WSJ is so much better and more complete that it almost takes your breath away. You will say to yourself "why did I waste my time watching those crazy cable news (really entertainment) shows that are so uninformative?" If most Americans get their news from the TV as I am told they do, then we have dark days ahead. Our society will become less enlightened and less caring.


The World's Greatest Newspaper (in English anyway), December 13, 2007
By Lynn Ellingwood "The ESOL Teacher" (Webster, NY United States)

This review is from: New York Times - National Edition (Magazine)

I have been subscribing the New York Times for many years now. I get behind and they tend to pile up when I am busy, but I read them anyway. It's a great paper and a great read. I always learn more after reading the Times. I have lived in other parts of the world and read their newspapers too, but The New York Times seems the best to me. It doesn't mean I read it exclusively however. The paper itself is better than just reading it online because you can relax and lean back comfortably. The issues don't expire or get locked out after a period of time also. The reporting is topnotch. I am lucky to receive the New York edition and not the national edition, which is more condensed and smaller. Enjoy!


New York Times, November 26, 2004
By Adam from St Louis

This review is from: New York Times - National Edition (Magazine)

The New York Times is the most influential publication in the United States. Though not impervious to the political pressures media empires are influenced by in today's journalistic environment, the Times is probably as independent as any other of the "major" players. When comparing the quality of journalism in the New York Times to other news agencies, few even come close to the NYT's intellectual potency. You can count on pieces in the NYT to be very well written, and you'll be getting the best investigative journalism in the country. Read a smart article in the New York Times this morning and chances are the cable network talking heads will be screaming with their sixth grade vocabulary about that article for the entire "news cycle".


All the news the editors see fit to print, February 26, 2006
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel)

This review is from: New York Times - National Edition (Magazine)

The 'New York Times' is generally regarded as the world's most important and influential newspaper. It is 'the paper of record' and the one which has the greatest intellectual and cultural prestige.

It has a great staff of many of the world's finest journalists. It often provides investigative reports of great depth.

I have enjoyed reading it for so long as I can remember. A family ritual was my father Reuben Kelly Freedman (of blessed memory) buying the Sunday paper on Second Street in downtown Troy, New York for a quarter from the old Greek newsweller Teddy Popalapus. The huge paper would be taken home and taken apart in sections, with of course the sports section taken out first. I now have reached the age where another favorite of my fathers,'the obituary page ' also interests me.

I would like then thinking of all the years of reading the 'Times ' simply love to sing its praises.

But of course the problem is when you happen to know something about the subject covered.

My own personal pique and more than that at the 'Times' is for the political line it has promoted all these years. The over- liberal Times seems to me to not have been as politically astute and patriotic as it might have been. Certain of the 'Times' publications through the years such as 'The Pentagon Papers' of Daniel Ellsberg seemed to me to be a national disservice.

Even more importantly I have the sense that historically the 'Times ' has done more than one injustice . The 'Times' knew more than it told about the Holocaust when it was happening. It covered up what it should not have. I do not know if this might have made a difference in saving lives. My guess is it could have.

For a long-time now the Times 'balanced Middle - Eastern coverage' has concealed the real nature of the Middle East conflict, the tremendous hatred and violence of the Arab and now Islamic world against Israel. The 'Times' long faulted for its 'Jewish ownership' has bent backwards to show it is not - pro-Israel'. In so doing it often injured the Jewish people.

The 'Times' can be faulted in other ways. Consider a story that has recently become very prominent, the Iranian nuclear weapons development issue. Times' reporters(David Sanger and William Geertz) made important revelations along the way on this story(Thanks to Pentagon sources) But on the whole the 'Times' has taken a quite slow approach to perceiving the danger involved. This by the way is very typical of the 'Times' as it very often promotes liberal non- violent balanced solutions where they simply are not relevant.

What I have written here I know is unfair as it does not even touch upon so much 'The Times ' does daily. It provides reports and articles of interest on a great variety of subjects. I think it would be a shame if the 'Times' decided to 'dumb- down' to have broader appeal. There have been certain signs of it especially as it feels more threatened by other kinds of 'media'.

On the whole the 'New York Times' still provides great reporting in many different areas (Science, Health,) and is an institution which I hope will prosper and improve( politically) in the years ahead.