Among the many reasons adduced for the awfulness of The New York
Times—its arrogance, its sloppiness, its almost risible
political correctness—is the paper’s lack of competition. With
the demise of The New York Tribune in 1966, the last serious
competitor to the Times vanished. That unfortunate situation
may be about to be
corrected. As of April 16, New York has a new
broadsheet. Called The New York Sun,
it revives a defunct paper
that, like the Tribune, went out of business years ago. For
the moment, the Sun is a modest one-section paper and is
published only five days a week. But if its first issues are
anything to go by, the Times will finally have some real
competition in its local reporting and in its
coverage of culture. Readers may subscribe to the Sun
by telephone at 866.692.7861 (toll free) or on-line at
www.nysun.com.
