It was also very clearly a Friday afternoon at The New York Times.
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If The New York Times is our paper of record, then surely, you might think, its readers are among the more urbane, refined members of our society.
According to the poll result, A little more than 40% of people answered yes, while 30% said they would not kill the future dictator and author of the Holocaust.
The response to the original premise (and its first response)? Gloriously presented, free of charge, by the wonderful world of Twitter.
The question caught followers by surprise.
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The news media, for example, has in the past decade or so ramped up its efforts to figure out what makes us tick: Digital only! The Hitler question prompted the magazine’s biggest response, Silverstein said. That tweet got 643 retweets, 557 favorites, as of this writing, and several responses asking if the account was OK.
