Long piece by Clark Hoyt, the NYT public editor, on the sociology of the marriage announcements in the New York Times talks about class issues and bloodlines, and same-sex marriages, and the meritocracy–
When bloodlines are mentioned, they tend to be from accomplishment, not
old social order — a father who was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist,
another who was a top executive of ABC. Almost a quarter of the parents
were educators.
But though many of the names in the piece are Jewish, this piece, like almost every other piece purporting to cover our new sociology, says nothing about the Jewish rise into the establishment. As Gene Roberts, the legendary editor for the Times and the Inquirer, whom I had the distinct privilege of being spanked hard by as a youngish man, used to say, "Great stories don't break, they ooze." Well this story is oozing over everyone, and we all know it, but no one covers it.
