Those darn auto-mobile things will never catch on.

So thought the buggy and carriage makers at the turn of the century. I have a few meadowbrook carts and a horse drawn wagon, you know what, it is hard to find anyone to work on them. The reason? They are obsolete. For the folks who use buggies and wagon for pleasure shows or to haul tourists about town, a good wheel-wright is hard to find.

Today's print media must look down the tracks and see if there is a tunnel through the mountain before they can start looking for the light at the end. The New York Times is searching for ways to stay relevant in the land between the north east elites and the west coast Hollywood liberals. This task is not just important, is a life or death struggle. The MSM has been showing all the signs of a fatal disease for years now, but if your a smoker with lung cancer, hanging around other smokers that are coughing up black tar and saying they feel fine is not going to make you seek treatment. What the Times needs to do is get a MRI and a full body scan to find out how sick they are. The Times panel solution to it's ills are like going back down to the smoke filled bar and asking one of your friends, how do I look? Limiting anonymous sources? That is the snow that is sitting on top of the tip of the iceberg.

I live in the country, I have for almost all of my life, I have visited New York City and had a great time. My Son and I loved it, we went to a Yankees game and sat in the 6th row. We navigated the subway with relative ease, and did most of the tourist things. Most of the people were great, and I enjoyed the flavor and diversity of all the different cultures. Does this make me qualified to be the City Editor for the Times? Not hardly. The differences go much further than geography and time spent in the region. One of the qualifications to be a reporter in the City is knowing the heartbeat of the city, and the hundreds of places to find its pulse. If you rarely leave Manhattan, and can't wait for the next dinner party with the important people, you will see the City in one way. However, your view will be very different from the electrician that works in the basement of a building keeping the lights on so he can go home to his family every night.

How can the Times hope to reach out to the inhabitants of fly-over country? The easy way is to find like-minded reporters from the Midwest and the South and publish more of their reports. Sounds great, more liberal bias from different parts of the nation, whoopee. Speaking for myself, I don't really care if the Times prints an article from a reporter in Davis about this or that, the story will be skewed by that reporter's political bias.

Where would I start if I were given the rudder of Times for a year? I would start by having a 'step into the light' edition. This is who we are, this is what we believe, and this what we think about these key issues. Paul Krugman needs to tell everyone that he would like nothing better that to have America become more and more Socialist. That's who I am, that's how I feel. When I write about the President and his policies, please know that this is where I am writing from.

What would I do next? Replace one quarter of the reporters and editors with middle-right conservatives. Why on earth would I do that? To better reflect the views of the nation. The day their first column hits the page, they must do a 'step into the light' piece. Now I know who is telling me their opinion, and I can decide if they have another agenda. Diversity, it is something that the Times loves to report about, but not something they practice. A good coffeepot-throwing screaming match at the editorial meetings would be the best sign that they are making progress. Diversity of opinion is a great thing.

Will the Times change? Nope. They will put a new tie on the pig and haul it out to fair for all to see, but its the same old pig. The will slowly suffocate under the weight of their bias and traditions.

In the words of Agent Smith " Do you hear that sound? That is the sound of inevitability"