XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: MeanDog@Snarl.Dash   
      
   On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 06:12:41 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom   
    wrote:   
      
   >Mitchell Holman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> "Socialism is for losers"  wrote in   
   >> news:g17hok9iob47t0on1lce2rdsef0be0812s@4ax.com:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 06:13:53 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>>    Arguing with Zombies review: Paul Krugman trumps the   
   >>>>    Republicans   
   >>>   
   >>> The same Paul Krugman who essentially got edited off the NYT?   
   >   
   >"Shooting the messenger"   
   >   
   >"Playing the man, not the ball"   
   >   
   >>    Paul Krugman has Nobel Prize in Economics.   
   >>    You have a GED and a 10 year pin from AA.   
   >>    Hardly the same.   
   >   
   >Straight from the horse's mouth:   
   >   
   >       
   >   
   >    As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my   
   >    position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I   
   >    had done for 25 years. Despite the encomiums issued by the   
   >    Times, it was not a happy departure. If you check out my   
   >    Substack, you will see that I have by no means run out of   
   >    energy or topics to write about. But from my perspective, the   
   >    nature of my relationship with the Times had degenerated to a   
   >    point where I couldn’t stay.   
   >   
   >    Charles Kaiser has written a fair-minded article in the   
   >    Columbia Journalism Review about my departure. What I want to   
   >    do in this post is add more context. Let’s be clear: I am not   
   >    planning to have a running feud with the Times: I came, I   
   >    saw, I felt I had to leave, and I moved on.   
   >   
   >    But I believe that the story of why I left says something   
   >    important about the current state of legacy journalism.   
   >   
   >More at that URL. The short story is ... new management,   
   >heavy-handed editing, ... which affected *all* NYT opinion   
   >writers.   
   >   
   >    I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline   
   >    that was no longer mine. So I left.   
      
    He got edited out. They told him to clean up his act or get out.   
      
   --   
   Only losers want Socialism or Communism.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)