NYT’s Olympic musical is a symphony of one note, repeated often

The New York Times doesn’t want us to read anymore. With the 2010 Winter Olympics at a close, the highly regarded paper decided to lose the usual results bar graph and make an audio presentation for its website instead. You can hear how close the silver medalist came to taking home the gold, with each piano key-like sound representing the time the athletes crossed the finish line. It’s an interesting approach to delivering the news, but does the Times really want to give people more reason not to pick up newsprint?

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by Jill Langlois

Allison Elkin was the Spring 2015 co-chief copy editor of the RRJ.