THE HERMETIC AND ARROGANT NEW YORK TIMES:

The NYT employs some of the smartest and ablest users and analysts of social media: it’s probably the most sophisticated newspaper in America on that front. And then it has dinosaurs like Bill Keller and Arthur Brisbane, whose respective columns this weekend betray the fact that the people with the bully pulpits are stuck in a completely different world, seemingly ignorant of some of the biggest stories in social media.

A couple of months ago, Keller described the Huffington Post (which competes daily for the Times’ core Bobo demographic)* as a haven for “celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications.” So it may be asking him far too much to get Twitter, as well.

In other words, once again, Gray Lady Down.

* As does the Daily Show, which had lots of fun with the Gray Lady in general, not to mention Keller himself a couple of years ago: