The Times Sports Section is a shadow of its former self. Ditto for the Review, which is the successor to the News of the Week in Review, which was sharp, on-topic and entertaining. The successor is without direction, focus or much interest, a hodgepodge of articles that the editors can't figure out where to dump.
Now to the reconstituted Sunday Magazine: (1) The new mouse type is perfectly suited to eight-year-old eyes. The task force making that decision must have been made up of callow youth. They delivered a squintathon.
(2) Terrible decision to make The Ethicist an answer by committee exercise. Too much work figuring out what should be an understandable answer. Never give readers a puzzle to figure out, unless it's a puzzle. This is an opinion piece, not a debate, and you have too many opinions.
(3) The Articles continue to be obscure and off-subject. Where's the on-subject material? Middle East Chaos; Russia vs. the World; Japan-China scrapping; Rising Seas; Rich Nations-Poor Nations ongoing struggle over inequality; Nuclear Material loose in the world; Iran, the Bomb and war or peace; the concerted campaign to squelch minorities in America.
(4) Good stories on the 14th-Century Italian church-now a house. And runner Mary Cain, with yawning need to name a few of her competitors. But, a story on field jackets? The totally boring 'loser edit,' or 'chopped' food shows. Write about it? Even glimpsing it on TV is bad enough.
We're paying six bucks a pop for the Sunday Times. Stop avoiding the great issues of the day, and adopting a let's-not-be-like everybody-else mentality. This reader, and many more I talk to want more meat on the Times' old bones in all of your sections.
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