IS THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARBITER OF TASTE AND CULTURE IN NEW YORK? John Gapper has an article in the Financial Times today which discusses a quote which I linked to last week. Gapper says, “…the New York Times rules. As Jill Abramson, its managing editor, put it snootily last month: ‘We are the central arbiter of taste and culture in New York City.'” Gapper argues that the New York Times has power in reviewing restaurants (and plays) in New York, but that bloggers may be eroding that power and that “As a diner and film goer, I like this because it provides a free market in opinion.” But Gapper says that “Ms. Abramson was right.” That is, the New York Times is the arbiter of taste and culture in New York.
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The way Abramson phrases that, it sounds to me like the royal we. (I know it’s not, but that’s what came to mind.) I wonder if there could be some fun comparisons made between the New York Times and the monarchs of old. After all, Queen Elizabeth I was pretty much the arbiter of taste in London at her time, considering Shakespeare wrote plays to please her. Same with James and the plays of the Jacobean period, as I recall.
Mr. Familias has pointed out to me that Shakespeare took some awful chances writing plays for court that could be construed as politically incorrect.