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Fire the NYT!

By Earl Warren

Speaking of the increasingly unreadable Paul Krugman, is it just me, or is the whole stable of NYT columnists about two months past the drink-by date on the milk carton?

Tom Friedman has been writing the same column since 1997 ("Globalization: Wow!"), Nicholas Kristof is the guilty conscience I don't want to hear from at 8:15 AM, Bill Kristol's new column is generated entirely from a robot stored at the RNC, Bob Herbert is right but boring, and Maureen Dowd is now completely indistinguishable from one of the Heathers after losing a student council race.

David Brooks is the only columnist who is occasionally interesting, with his "I'm not a sociologist but I play one on TV" shtick. But that's like being #1 in a class full of kids held back a year.

Would there be any objection -- any at all? -- if we fired the lot of them and replaced them with a 7-day rotation consisting of Jon Chait, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Gerson, Daniel Gross, Bill Simmons, Charles Barkley, and Ted Nugent? With Keith Olberman or Flavor Flav thrown in as a wild card now or again?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).