I wrote a long, very long, piece about my long-standing relationship with the NewYork Times, going all the way back to my high school years.

It covered the time I spent in Pattee Library’s microfiche room going through back issues of the Times to catch up on things that I missed, and the years when Jim Mason and I would call each other up on Sunday afternoons to try to get the last few words of the Times crossword puzzle, through the years that I subscribed to the paper edition and then to the digital edition.

And it covered my gradual unease with the nytimes coverage of the political news, starting with its incoherent Whitewater story about the Clintons losing money on a real estate deal which somehow led to a big scandal. And how the nytimes doesn’t put large numbers into any sort of context; it will report a tax as generating a billion dollars without mentioning that that is over a ten year period, for example. And its 2020 election coverage where somehow Clinton’s nothing-burger of an email story received much greater weight than all of Trump’s scandals, right up to its latest banging of the drum to get Biden to drop out of the race. They seem to be trying to appeal the Fox “news” crowd.

But I deleted all that.

It was just a prologue to saying that yesterday I finally did what I’ve been contemplating for several years now. I cancelled my nytimes subscription.

Somehow their arts and science coverage no longer makes up for their political malpractice.