Nathan Kleinfield presided over a 12-page Sunday May 1 New York Times section on Alzheimer’s that had painful details of life with the brain disease but left out any mention of excessive radiation as a possible cause.

Kleinfield uses the byline “N.R. Kleinfield” but should switch to his first name so readers know whether the writer is a man or woman.

Fraying At The EdgesThe article actually went nowhere because Kleinfield wrote the next day that none of the drugs work with the disease and one can only hope its progress is slow. He noted that his own mother was a victim.

A much better use of the space would have been exploring the huge body of scientific research and literature on the numerous sources of electro-magnetic radiation that are impacting the health of people around the world.

More than 200 articles, documents and programs on the subject have appeared on this website in recent months including yesterday’s publishing of the video and transcript of the Israeli TV program April 12 titled “How We Are Killing Ourselves—Wireless Radiation.”

NYT Has “Blind Spots”

The failure of NYT to cover the radiation threat is one of several “blind spots” that we have noticed over the years.

Its last story on the multi-million dollar lawsuits over the quest of the East End Eruv Assn. to erect eruvim Orthodox Jewish boundaries in Southampton, Quogue and Westhampton was on Feb. 4, 2013.

The battle continues with Westhampton Beach refusing thus far to sign any agreement that gives the EEEA the permanent right to put markers on 48 utility poles in the village.

Steven Greenhouse & N.R. KleinfieldIt is under threat of millions of dollars of legal fees if it loses its court fight, a threat that has caused Southampton and Quogue to cave to the demands of the EEEA.

However, two candidates last year for the board of WHB, Brian Tymann and Rob Rubio, were elected based on the promise that they would not sign any such agreement.

The odd part of this story is that NYT reporter Nicholas Confessore is the son of Lynda Confessore, president of the Quogue library, and presumably is aware of the raging battle.

Another part of this story that NYT has ignored is the ousting of Rabbi Marc Schneier as head of the Hampton Synagogue last month.

Schneier, founder of the Synagogue in 1992, initiated the quest for eruvim in the Hamptons. The New York Post had a two-page story Sunday April 24 under the headline “Hamptons Riled by Randy Rabbi.” http://tinyurl.com/jme3vbp The subhead said: “After 5 wives, holy man’s congregation has had enough of ‘pass’ over.”

There was no mention of the departure in NYT.

When Faigy Mayer, 30, jumped to her death after complaining her Orthodox community had rejected her, there was front page coverage in the NY Post and several follow-up stories. NYT had no coverage.

Tylenol Murders “Classic PR Case”-- NYT

The paper has held the view that Johnson & Johnson’s handling of the seven murders via Tylenols in 1982 s an example of how to handle crisis in spite of evidence that the poisonings took place while the bottles were in the distribution chain of the company.

Since we play bridge up to three times a week in New York and the Hamptons, we have contact with lots of bridge players.

It would be hard to overstate the anger of the bridge buffs at last year’s cancellation of the three-times a week bridge column after more than 60 years. The NY Post, Newsday and many other papers run syndicated bridge columns daily.

Also killed was the chess column. A loss to the advertising/PR community was the deep-sixing of the ad column last year after a run of more than 70 years.

The explanation given for cancellation of the bridge column was that the hand had to be “played” to check it out and no one on staff had the time to do that. Yet the staff had time to put together 12 pages on the travails of Alzheimer’s victims May 1.

Acres of text and pictures are spent on certain other topics.

NYT’s coverage of worldwide news is unexcelled and needed since international news is mostly ignored on 11 p.m. newscasts. Local crime news, accidents, weather and sports dominate such programs.

NYT, if it cut about 90% of its color pictures and shortened stories, getting to the point quickly, could cut its cost to below $1 from the current $2.50 and serve a much bigger audience.

New ownership not identified with any religion or political philosophy is what is needed.