As time goes on, the Times becomes increasingly irrelevant, along with the rest of the print & traditional broadcast media. Young people, especially, avail themselves of a broader range of information choices. Newspaper & broadcast newsrooms complain that only they originate true news, and to some extent they have an argument. But regardless of the merit, the day is passing when the fourth estate can act as king-maker or breaker (their true class goal). Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were pathetic heirs to Edward R. Murrow.