The Times, as well as all "dead tree" papers, is just another buggy-whip manufactuer in a race car world! Sure they've probably lost a lot of circ because of their percieved left-wing news slant but most newspapers of all stripes are laying off and consolidating these days. In a time when all consumer news (local, state, national, world, etc) is on the internet in some form, the old tech hardcopy paper is "old news"!