"It's melting! Melting"

On Hugh Hewitt's show this afternoon he described the front page of the New York Times as a "donation in kind to the Kerry campaign." What was once a national, even a worldwide, leading newspaper, is shrinking like the Wicked Witch of the West in the shower. It's becoming a parochial little paper for liberal New Yorkers, an oddity for the rest of us to wonder at. It's a has-been, still wealthy, but not offered any good parts these days. The cognoscenti read it with a corrective filter.