It takes about 10 seconds before it loads to a usable state on a T1 connection.
If I pop open an inspector, requests go on for about 30 seconds before they die down. It's about 8MB.
Builtwith.com shows 48 advertising libraries being used on the site.
The newspaper has a staff of less than 50, who even has time to look through and use all that advertising data?
The site is unusable.
http://imgur.com/a/qt0Zd (59.9MB)
I don't think JavaScript is really to blame for this though, the problem here is they're dumping a whole bunch of full sized images when they could have used thumbnails.