I got a call from my friend Farrell earlier this evening. “Do you still have today’s Times?” he asked.
He was calling from Washington, but I knew he wasn’t talking about the Washington Times. The New York Times was his concern and I still had my copy at home.
“Look at Page A6.”
So tonight, when I got home, I did just that. It was a typical inside page in the Times main section. Fully 75% of the page was ads. The lower half was a sedate graph touting the ratings for NBC’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention. It was that ad Farrell was referring to.
A first glance it looks perfectly normal… but read each word carefully.
I can’t believe this got by everyone at NBC and the Times!
