In a now famous exchange, the Daily Show stumped a New York Times editor by pointing out that all the news fit to print is old news:
Daily Show: Why is aged news better than real news?
New York Times: I’ve never heard that term before…[and] not necessarily.DS: Tell me one thing in there that happened today.
NYT: Nothing here happened today but there are several things that didn’t happen yesterday.DS: So it’s even older.
NYT: It depends on your perspective.
I hope I’m never interviewed by the Daily Show because I would surely implode. that said, the NYT editor was defending the wrong position.
He could have answered: “Why is aged milk better than fresh milk? Because it’s cheese. We live in a marketplace and a culture where both cheese and milk are desired. The NYT is in the business of selling aged cheese not fresh milk.”
Cheese is complex, dense and nutritious. Milk is great for cereal and coffee. One can be a meal in and of itself, the other an ingredient.