The newspaper and magazine industries have recently run into struggles to stay afloat and relevant in an age where they are forced to compete for readership and advertising with young people on the Internet providing news that has an angle foreign to the oldtimers, its entertaining (fucking kids). But the clever, moldy old bastards over at the New York Times might have just found a way to end major layoffs plaguing the industry as of late, as deftly illustrated in the fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun in season five of David Simon’s multi-dimensioned social commentary, “The Wire,” and continue funding that blog-like thing they bother to edit and print off everyday.
The most recent option for the Times is the June 22nd article written by Brooke Hauser which follows the prom nights of immigrant Brooklyn seniors who despite all odds finally got the opportunity to experience the quintessential American right to an evening of public intoxication and/or loose their virginity in a cheaper version of Motel 6.
