Paul LaRosa/Here is New York: My complaint with the NY Times....

August 31, 2009

My complaint with the NY Times....

This may sound kind of funny but I have a complaint about the NY Times' "Complaint Box" column running in Sunday's (8/30) new Metropolitan section. First off, it's yet another rant from a woman about how no one gave her a subway seat when she was pregnant. Fair enough, even though it seems to me The Times runs the same story rather frequently.

But my real complaint has to do the author's (Lynn Harris) specific complaint that, of all the people who did give up their seat to her, never was it a "white man." (continue reading...)

Aug 31, 2009 10:54:09 PM

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