More than a dozen current and former employees of the NYT say that everything the paper has printed since 1906 is useless. The journalists, many of them senior editors, spoke on condition of anonymity partly due to post-employment restrictions that could jeopardize their coveted memberships in the Pen and Ink club, but mostly from fear of being snubbed by the Upper West side intelligentsia.

"Not a single accurate story has been published in more than a century", said one journalist. "More than once I found editors cribbing from World Weekly News magazines they picked up waiting in the Deli line."