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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2083761, member: 6761"] No longer. At least not technically. It surrendered that responsibility I guess when it became more profitable to publish watch and handbag advertisements than official governmental documents. So then, they changed the meaning of the term from the responsibility for publishing official government statements in their entirety to just being a respected and widely circulating national newspaper, and under that very ambiguous criterion, the Times still claims it is. And as to covering WCBB, yes, very recently. But if you except women's tennis (and that's largely because of Serena Williams), the Times sports section is terribly sexist. And last Sunday, Liz Spayd, the Public Editor of the Times, excoriated the paper for its inability/refusal to promote women to positions of authority at the Times. [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/public-editor/the-declining-fortunes-of-women-at-the-times.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-public-editor&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection']https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/public-editor/the-declining-fortunes-of-women-at-the-times.html?rref=collection/column/the-public-editor&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection[/URL] [/QUOTE]