• Would a Black President And Black Commentators Be Too Much Black?

    By Hamilton Nolan, 1:56 PM on Mon Jun 15 2009, 2,953 views

    In your intermittently gloomy Monday media column: a new font at the New York Times, a fantastical price for the Boston Globe, black people would like to be invited on television sometimes, and the recession proves Steve Forbes right:

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    By Hamilton Nolan
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    Would a Black President And Black Commentators Be Too Much Black?

    Did you see the NYT magazine this weekend? It's slightly smaller! Also the paper has chosen a new font to help it squeeze more words on the page, in response. Every penny saved on newsprint these days helps, you know. Unfortunately the magazine also changed the layout of Deborah Solomon's weekly interviews, which was the best thing about them.

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