WTF NYT?

As mentioned below, a shout out to Sieglinde for highlighting the sheer absurdity of what were easily the ten most worthless paragraphs I've read all week. It's like some mindfuck assignment from a college rhetoric class where you have to deploy all the language associated with criticism while being careful not to express a single substantive point. Except here the 'A' papers get published in the New York Freaking Times. Arg.