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How the New York Times Came to Love JC Penney

The Times ombudsmen scolds Cintra Wilson for a column she wrote recently about JC Penney waddling into Manhattan in its “big ole shorts and flip-flops.” I love it when the Times pretends to be populist.

By: Hanna Rosin

Posted: August 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM

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<p>The <em>Times</em> ombudsmen scolds Cintra Wilson for a column she wrote recently about J.C. Penney waddling into Manhattan in its “big ole shorts and flip-flops.” I love it when the <em>Times</em> pretends to be populist.</p>
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The Times ombudsmen scolds Cintra Wilson for a column she wrote recently about JC Penney waddling into Manhattan in its “big ole shorts and flip-flops.” I love it when the Times pretends to be populist.

The Times ombudsmen scolds Cintra Wilson [1] for a column she wrote recently about J.C. Penney coming to midtown Manhattan, or rather, waddling into Manhattan in its “big ole shorts and flip-flops.” “A virtual sneer seeming to drip from her keyboard,” the ombudsman complains. I love it when the Times pretends to be populist. Yes, a paper that regularly wallows in inside-Hamptons gossip is very pro- JC Penney’s. Gawker fingers Wilson’s real sin [2]: Times editor Bill Keller’s mom apparently shopped there, too.

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23pubed.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1251064876-IPv95qmDLGyPcsgZkwWrFA
[2] http://gawker.com/5343759/ny-times-public-editor-takes-their-fat-hating-midwestern-mocking-writer-to-task