Former New York Times columnist Charles Blow, who spent some three decades at the Grey Lady, lamented how his time at the paper ended in his new Substack blog.
“My last years at the paper weren’t my most pleasant. My job went from being one I would say, earnestly, I would do for free, to one I struggled to justify doing for pay.”
He also commented on about the content of his columns as his time wore down.
“The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice.”
Blow said that while he wished the Times well and future success, he departed “without sorrow.”
Substack has become the haven for journalists who have either been laid off, took voluntary buyouts or retired from their posts as newspapers continued their march to becoming leaner companies in an effort to survive in a world where newsprint continues to shrink and making a profit online is a continual struggle.
The last straw for Blow may have been the re-election of Donald Trump. He noted in his final column in February 2025 that he covered the 2016 election of Trump, stating that he considered it a racial event. He called Trump a racist in 2018 and like most black liberals would play the race card against Trump and the Republicans because it sold well with his audience.
Liberal journalism is not en vogue under Trump 2.0 and is unlikely to return to its dominant position in the near future, if ever.
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Author: Don Irvine
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