I guess we'll never be fully rid of industry bought puff pieces but to put this in the "World" section is absurd.
if it were not for this article, I'd never have known that someone was trying to draw by hand every single pub in London. so it was successful in delivering news to me
Were the resources of the New York Times well invested by procuring this news?
How do you suppose they "got the scoop?"
You know that the newspaper had other sections in it that, wait for it, wasn't news, right? They had lifestyle sections. They had sports sections. They even had comics. None of that was news as whatever your strict definition seems to be, but it was information that people were interested in knowing. Maybe you don't. Great. Move along and stop trying to ruin it for everyone else just because you don't get it.