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Ex-Times editors talk of 'reinvention'
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... 70's at times it was a real bad situation and it reinvented itself, it reinvented itself as a paper," Frankel recalled. Raines cited the same era, stating: "One of the things Abe did was to invent Science Times and it was an economic windfall for the new daily section that pulled the paper out of the economic threat. It was an interesting moment because Clay Felker and New York magazine discovered the success of service journalism in the New York market." Meanwhile, Alec Baldwin writes on HuffPost: "Why we need the New York Times."

Confirmed: Alec Baldwin Is An Uninformed Moron
JammieWearingFool — The bloated halfwit proves conclusively what we've long suspected: His grasp of politics and news in general is very limited . For many years, I was a devoted reader of the New York Times . An unusually devoted one. I picked up the habit from David O'Brien, an actor who played my father on a soap opera I appeared on over 25 years ago. It was my first professional job, and I watched O'Brien as he passed his down time by scouring the paper from cover to cover and doing the crossword along the way. I picked up the paper every day, back when many places ran out of the Times, and ...

Why we need Alec Baldwin
The Reaction — ... To defend The New York Times, and newspapers generally, which he does here. I generally read newspapers, including the NYT, online, but from time to time I like to pick one up and read it as it used to be read, including my local paper here in suburban Toronto. The future, much more so than the present, is digital, and virtual, but I do hope there is a future for old-school journalism, and that, to that end, the apparent demise of the newspaper industry, including the possible collapse of institutions like The Boston Globe, is halted, and reversed. Of ...

Alec Baldwin: Olbermann & Maddow Kind of Hard to Watch
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Poor Keith! First the big kids refuse to invite him into their little club, and now they’re trashing him out in the open! On cable news, I am a fan of Keith and Rachel. But he wastes too much time p***ing on Bush and his deposed cronies. She is smart and charming but her writers are dreadful and the less cutesy she is, the better. She did an excellent interview with Colin Powell recently. The next night, I missed that tougher, less avuncular Rachel. A while back, the idea of sitting down at another screen and getting my evening news seemed ...

On paper, in black and white
The Sideshow — There's a good bit of conversation going on with Kos and Alec Baldwin, quoted as "contrasting views" by Eric Boehlert, with further comment from Atrios (who dissents from the idea that they are contrasting views), on the ongoing saga of the collapse of the newspaper business model. It's important to underline the fact that the newspaper model that is collapsing is not the model that kept newspapers healthy for hundreds of years, but the "modern" model that has been destroying more than just the newspaper industry - it's the high-flyer model of ...

Baldwin: 'Would never pick a fight with Olbermann, Maddow'
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Writing last week Huffington Post about the necessity of the New York Times, Alec Baldwin noted that while he's a fan of both Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, the former "wastes too much time pissing on Bush and his deposed cronies," while the latter has "dreadful" writers. ...