Re: Paging BAA

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The best part of this has to be Brooks' response: I was just kidding. You know, the part where I made those claims? Where it really looked like I was saying I couldn't spend more than $20 on dinner? No, I wasn't saying that at all! It was a joke.

What a doofus. Can we please give his column to someone else, Uncle Punch?

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Ouch! This steams me up, as I've passed on that $20 "fact" to others. It seemed so vivid and telling -- vivid like Steven Glass!


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hrough his articles, a best-selling book, and now a twice-a-week column in what is arguably journalism's most prized locale, the New York Times op-ed page...

Does anyone who knows better than me know if this is true? When I first read it, it seemed like a truism. Then I thought, maybe it's a Brooks truism. But if it is, how sad. I mean, Friedman, Dowd, Safire, (Brooks), I guess Kristoff has his moments...I'm not going to say Hebert, because I really enjoyed his last column. I have mixed feelings about Krugman: on one hand, I appreciate that he continually drives a very important point that people need reminded of. On the other, could he, just every once in awhile, write about something else? Anyway, the point is, not exactly a stellar lineup, especially for "journalism's most prized locale."

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Ok Michael, name me all the regular Op-Ed writers at any other publication.

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touche. the only reason i know all of them *is* because they work for the NYT. it's certainly not because i read them often, anymore.

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ogged, you're right that the NYT is the pinnacle for opinion writers, and Michael, you're right about the dreadfulness of the current occupants. The Post has them beat hollow.

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