As Winter Approaches, The New York Times Turns To Its Annual Obsession

Namely, the quality of snow at ski resorts:

Rising Temperatures Threaten Fundamental Change for Ski Slopes

Since reporters, like a lot of people, tend to vacate during the Christmas holiday season, newspapers do what they do in the summers with shark attack stories and they pre-file global warming/climate change articles about things that might make affluent white people suffer.

For example, here's a pre-filed article from a 2007 edition of the NYT:

How Do You Ski if There Is No Snow?

Compare and contrast to your own delight.

[Interesting side note: In 2007, Pennsylvania ski resorts had record amounts of snow, but I recall a resort owner complaining that the media had no interest in informing people of that.  Do tell?  When you write the bulk of an article weeks in advance, you don't have time for immediate factual "irregularities"; just go with the established narrative.]