We have to apologize. For so long, we've operated under the impression that the Times was stuffy and stodgy, but Monday's sale of the Times building on 43rd has everyone revealing anecdotes that make us think twice:

Gay Talese, a young star reporter [...] in the 50 s, echoed [the] memory of a sex-soaked headquarters. The building, he said, "personalized for me the hypocrisy and the virtue of the city. The virtue in the sense that, each day, The Times would distribute throughout the city, and the nation, a kind of attitude about standards. They would be an advocate for standards, for political standards, for foreign-policy standards, and within the building, none of this was going on. Within the building, everyone was smoking, while virtue was advocated in the sheets of the Gray Lady. The building was rampant with sexuality."

Standards? Clearly we were born in the wrong era.
Times Building Sold: Ghosts, Dirt Thrown In Gratis [Observer]