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Who the fuck is Gray Lady?
That's a nickname for the NYT. Supposedly a reference to how old fashioned and circumspect it is, but as a compliment?
Thanks. Seems like a pretty obscure reference to just include naked in the article like that.
It's not obscure, it's an old, well-known nickname, you just hadn't heard it before.
Agreed.
Eh. It's always been a part of discourse. If they instead said, "our view of the administration's workings don't even rise to the level of observing shadows projected on a cave wall, we are truly in the dark", I'm betting you would go right along with it, even though there are plenty of people that wouldn't get the reference.
This just happens to be one you didn't know ... And now you do.
I think you're replying to the wrong comment lol
Unlike the person I replied to, I knew that the NYT is called The Gray Lady already, though admittedly I didn't know WHY, so I looked that up.
I'm 42 and would put good money on most other people familiar with the nickname being a generation or two older than me, making it a pretty niche reference to casually expect the wider readership to understand without having to stop reading to look it up..
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