As a resident locally "served" by Newsday I can only ask: what were those 35 people thinking!<p>Comparing Newsday to the NY Times does a disservice to the Times. Since being taken over by Cablevision, Newsday can best be described as the New York Knicks of media. It has  become a throwaway add-on for Cablevision in its competition with Verizon Fios.