Yet They Publish Them Anyway
The NYT announced last week that Bono (yes, that Bono) was joining its Editorial Page as a real columnist. While talking about this news with The Guardian, the NYT editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal, Mr. Rosenthal notes that Brian May (guitarist for Queen with a Ph.D in Astrophysics) will be back, and that he is a fan of Bruce Springsteen’s op-eds. But he also makes this claim:
Though rockers and pop stars are welcome, another group faces an uphill battle on to the New York Times’ editorial page – conservatives. “[US Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice is a particularly bad op-ed writer,” Rosenthal said. However, the problem doesn’t end there. “The problem with conservative columnists,” Rosenthal said, “is that many of them lie in print.” And they can’t sing.
Um, yeah? The lying is a feature, not a bug with the kind of conservative columnists they think will add to the NYT audience.
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another group faces an uphill battle on to the New York Times’ editorial page – conservatives.
True conservatives lie and are disconnected from reality, but so is the person who says thet NYT Op-Ed page is not a haven for conservative columnists.
Hey…if it’s OP-ED, that immediately should tell you that only discriminating minds should continue. Taking anything for fact straight off of an OP-ED page risks anyone’s credibility.
Unlike blogs, of course! 😀
How many employees is the Times laying off to afford this? Or will he be writing pro-bono? Ha ha ha, I crack me up!
Oh well, President Obama will probably determine the NYT is “too liberal to fail” and have the Treasury buy them out, so he can rename it Pravda.