The New York Times again: I feel better, kind of....

OK, OK, so readers of the New York Times are also expected to need a helpful map to understand an article about New York City itself: today's paper has an article about a Staten Island food pantry that was burglarized ("Staten Island Journal: Theft Empties Pantry, but Hungry Keep Coming"), and sure enough, there's a map accompanying the text to show where the pantry is, in case you didn't know anything about Staten Island. And why would you know anything about SI if you read the Times regularly?

Besides, the map has no label on it whatsoever, so I suppose it is really only helpful to people who know something about the geography of NYC. Once again, the paper's decision about what to map, how to map, how to label reveals much about how it views itself and its readership. I think this is my 3rd posting about those little maps (see one and two); I may have to create a separate category for these items!

In any event, maybe it's a good thing Chicago got the USOC nod today to compete for Olympics host city rights in 2016. Wonder if that will make page 1 of the Times tomorrow?