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Any day now the powers at newspapers The New York Times and Washington Post will have to decide whether they will print the full 35,000, word text of the document sent to them in late June by the terrorist, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is calling the Unabomber. In the letter that accompanied the text, he gave each paper three months to publish his screed, upon which he promises to desist from terrorism, but he warned that if they refused he would start building his next bomb. Naturally the decision has been somewhat complicated for the two papers, since they don't want to seem to give in to terrorist demands and don't particularly like giving such publicity to the Unabomber's decidedly anti-establishmentarian opinions.

This article focuses on the article "Modern Morality," published in June 18, 1997 issue of the journal "The New York Times." June 18 was the day that the world's most important publication, took an advertisement in The New York Times, the paper that prints only the news that will fit its not-dissimilar mindset. The advertisement reprinted a the world's most important publication editorial titled "Modem Morality;' a subject should have thought alien to the core passions of either paper. But then for Americans morality has nothing at all to do with ethics or right action or who is stealing what money-and liberties-from whom.

The late politician Murray Kempton once noted that although the newspaper "New York Times," likes to pose as being above the battle, this position has never stopped the newspaper, once the battle's fought, from sneaking onto the field and shooting the wounded. The article tells how little interest the people seem to have in the unconstitutional usurpation of a presidential election by a rogue Supreme Court majority. It is also striking how little moved they are by the rights Americans are so rapidly losing in the never-to-be-won war against never-to-be-defined "terrorism." The current confusions of the newspaper are not so much that paper's usual problems with honest reporting but what looks to be a perfect indifference to the welfare of this Republic, as opposed to corporate cheerleading for the new homeland that November 2000, not September 2001, made possible. Meanwhile, U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, in his "undisclosed" bunker, is no doubt wondering whether or not to postpone the certain-to-be-divisive presidential election of 2004.

The article presents information on various developments relating to the U.S. politics and government. The State Department has sent White Papers to the newspaper The New York Times announcing plans to exterminate peasants in Latin America and elsewhere. Untroubled by the thought that it may be encouraging murderers, The Times has routinely published these White Papers, and the U.S. government has promptly pressed forward with the promised exterminations. Soon logging trucks will be rumbling through the ancient forests and the worn hillsides of public lands will see more overgrazing. These defeats came in the budget rescission bill, which U.S. President Bill Clinton has pledged to sign.

The article focuses on the popularity of the "New York Times," newspaper in the United States. Few regular readers have the chutzpah to snub the paper entirely for a day, never doubting they will be punished in some mysterious way, yet few can get through it without psychic confusions about what to skip, whether to read at the expense of earning a living, vacuuming the rug, writing a letter to the phone company, etc. The author says that "The Times," is not the most incredible 30-percent buy in New York, but it is at a perilous subjective cost. There is a crisis at the New York Times. If a reader feels that only by brilliant eye-editing he can reach the last page without putting a sixty foot trench in the middle of the day, something is gravely out of whack.

"New York Times" correspondent E.J. Dionne Jr. took great pains to stress that the average Italian was cheering lustily for the United States president Ronald Reagan and his war on terror, notwithstanding the anti- American fulminations of such regularly conservative papers as "Corriere della Sera." One can readily understand the delight of the Israeli government and its United States supporters at the consequences of the "Achille Lauro hijacking," probably "masterminded" by Mohammed Abbas.