Aside from the new media concerns, the Times' left slant has definitely cost them a chunk of their old base, not a lot, but some. There used to be a lot of cons

Aside from the new media concerns, the Times' left slant has definitely cost them a chunk of their old base, not a lot, but some. There used to be a lot of conservative democrat types who used to read the Old Gray Lady, but they no longer do. Granted the Palin types will never read the Times and never have, but that 10-15% of their readserhip that is gone hurts. It hurts a lot.