How a New York Times Story About Mexicans Shows that the Orange
County Register Will Always Suck  The cover to Nick Schou's 2000
cover story on El Cargadero Early last week, the New York Times
did a so-so story about how there's so few Mexicans left in
rural Mexico that any amnesty would probably not motivate more
of them to migrate to the United States. I say "so-so" not just
because I think the reporter, Damien Cave, is an apologist for
the Mexican elite, but because the story was better reported by
Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones about 15 years ago, as
documented in his awesome True Tales from Another Mexico.  But
if the Gray Lady did a middling job, then the Orange County
Register just fucked up the story royally, and proved yet again
that you can throw all the money you want on a laughable
publication--and it'll still be a laughable publication if you
don't solve the problem that makes it a laughable story in the
first place. See, the Reg republished the Times' piece, only
adding a flourish notin