XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   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:   
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   >>   
   >>>    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.   
      
   --   
   A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.   
   		-- Harry S. Truman   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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