The NYT’s gratuitously detailed accounts of the recent Times Square scares

In reporting on the unfolding events in Times Square right now, the New York Times‘s City Room blog lapses into almost Onionesque territory when it mentions a vendor who reported a suspicious duffel bag earlier this morning: Mr. Elbaz, an immigrant from Egypt who lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, said he was relieved. It was … Continue reading The NYT’s gratuitously detailed accounts of the recent Times Square scares