THE WEBIFIED TIMES

You don’t get anything like the buckfush.com editorial illustration, below, anywhere in The New York Times. But the subscriber-based TimesSelect service of The Times does have lots of new features, although they’re not offered in the print edition or the free online edition. One, for instance, is the Talking Points personal opinion pieces by editorial page editor Gail Collins. She writes about everything from fictional women in American politics, i.e., the new TV show “Commander in Chief” (“Imagining a Woman in the Oval Office: The Powerphobic President”) to real women in American politics (“The Gender Landscape: It’s Reigning Men”).
But here’s an interesting development that’s new to us: Today’s editorial, “Faux News Is Bad News,” appears in the regular free section of the online Times but not in the print edition (at least not in the Late Edition that arrived on our doorstep in New York City). We haven’t seen the national print edition, so we don’t know if it appears there — but we assume it does.
Coincidentally, the editorial “Finally, a Teachers’ Contract,” which focuses on a late-breaking NYC issue and appears in print in the local Late Edition, does not appear online. We assume it’s not in the national print edition either (presumably because it’s of less interest, nationally). Anyway, what to make of this? Only that in our Webified times your Times, his Times, her Times, and our Times are not necessarily the same Times. And there’ve been no comments about this — or none that we’ve seen yet — at The Annotated Times.
— Tireless Staff of Thousands

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