Timesian

comparative more Timesian · superlative most Timesian

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of The New York Times.

   While The Voice’s Foster Kamer, using some un-Timesian language, retaliated against a lowly colleague: […]

   2010 November 23, Dave Itzkoff, “The Twitterverse Reacts to Its Inability to Purchase Kanye West Tickets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2010

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   The newly launched TimesPeople Beta is where The New York Times meets the social Web — think of it as all the news that’s fit to share. But it’s not a Timesian Facebook or MySpace: there’s no fretting over “friends” to accept or reject, no navigation of the foggy realm of online etiquette.

   2008 June 24, “Introducing TimesPeople Beta”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2009

   Jonathan Landman, now The Times’s culture editor, recounted that the comments feature began four years ago as a replacement for forums where readers could exchange views. The unsupervised forums, he said, had devolved into something less than Timesian.

   2010 December 11, Arthur S. Brisbane, “Readers With Plenty to Say”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021

   And Josh Gerstein at Politico has the latest on the Times reporter James Risen’s legal difficulties over refusing to testify about a confidential source. (The Times itself has not covered it as heavily, which seems puzzling to me, but may make sense in some mysterious Timesian way.)

   2014 December 18, Margaret Sullivan, “A Tumultuous Year at The Times”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2014

   In 1993, the Bronx Zoo changed its name. In Mr. Clines’s hands, it was a front-page story, with a soupçon of bemused irony lurking just beneath the Timesian surface.

   2022 July 11, “A Few Words From a Master Journalist”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022