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Diversity, Hiatt-Style
Matthew Yglesias —
Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, shining star of your liberal media, says:
Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt called Kristol “very smart and very plugged in,” saying Kristol would be an influential voice in the coming debate over redefining the Republican Party. “It seems to me there were a lot of Times readers who felt the Times shouldn’t hire someone who supported the Iraq war,” said Hiatt, adding that he wants “a diverse range of opinions” on his page.
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Great Moments In Headline Writing
Balloon Juice —
This Howard Kurtz piece takes the cake:
Kristol Severs Ties With the N.Y. Times
Bill Kristol was fired. Let go. Canned. He severed his ties to the Times in much the same way that a barnacle severs its ties with a ship when it is scraped off and tossed into the smelling muck.
I suppose the WaPo editors have to spin his FIRING FROM THE NY TIMES positively, since they have decided to give him a shot.
Can The New York Times Tolerate A Conservative?
PoliGazette —
... After a rocky year, conservative columnist William Kristol is leaving the opinion page of the New York Times. Kristol was a lightening rod for the left, who consider (with justification) the Times to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of their ideological movement. ...
Bill Kristol's Op-Ed Column: The New York Times's Gain is the Washington Post's Loss
Hit & Run —
... After a year, neocon king Bill Kristol gets booted from his weekly column at the New York Times, and returns for a monthly one at the Washington Post. ...
Hiatt: NYT readers didn’t want Kristol because he ’supported the Iraq war.’
Think Progress —
... .” In the Washington Post’s article today on Kristol’s departure from the Times, Hiatt mused that NYT readers didn’t like Kristol because they didn’t want the paper to “hire someone who supported the Iraq war“: ...
Confusion over Kristol
Political Animal —
CONFUSION OVER KRISTOL.... Perhaps the only thing more frustrating that Bill Kristol's endless stream of jobs in the mainstream media is confusion over why this is frustrating. After getting fired from Time , Kristol was hired by the New York Times . After getting fired from the New York Times , Kristol was hired by the Washington Post . Today, Fred Hiatt, the Post 's editorial page editor, defended the move ...
ALLEGED KRISTOL ERRORS:
Kristol’s earlier punditry for The Post was also controversial. In July 2…
Instapundit —
ALLEGED KRISTOL ERRORS:
Kristol’s earlier punditry for The Post was also controversial. In July 2007, he wrote in the paper’s Outlook section that “George W. Bush’s presidency will probably be a successful one.” He also said the Iraq war could be won and that “military progress on the ground in Iraq in the past few months has been greater than even surge proponents like me expected.”
And didn’t that turn out to be, you know, right? Pretty much everybody admits we’ve won in Iraq now. Kristol’s only sin was in timing. You can say the surge worked brilliantly now — ...
You can’t fire me! I quit!
Firedoglake —
I realize that idiot Howard Kurtz doesn't write the headlines, but I can't help but feel that he approves of this:
Kristol Severs Ties With the N.Y. Times
Similar headline:
John Wayne Bobbit Parts Ways With Penis.
Bill Kristol's Departure
The American Spectator —
... past year, he rarely filed a boring column, which doubtless offended many of his colleagues on the op-ed page. "Boredom is a virtue," is their motto, and the only other Times columnist who regularly breaks with the general tedium is that perpetual high school rowdy, Maureen Dowd, who often mistakes a cackle for a syllogism. Moreover, Kristol's conservatism is usually sound, solidly reasoned, and often amusing. This has led to charges from unnamed journalists in a Washington Post column by Howard Kurtz that Kristol was "predictable." This is a charge liberals often file ...
Newspaper Bailouts and Bill Kristol
TalkLeft —
... And the recent announcement that error-prone progagandist Bill Kristol will write a monthly column only further confirms the WaPo's tilt toward the powerful. Indeed, in announcing the hiring WaPo editorial page editor Fred Hiatt called Kristol "very plugged in." ...
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
This week -- a week that saw unemployment claims hit a 42-year high, January layoffs hit 125,000, and President Obama call the economy "a continuing disaster" -- delivered a hard-to-top nominee for our Marie Antoinette Award: disgraced scam artist Bernie Madoff, who still so doesn't get it that he had the gall to bellyache about being cooped up in his $7 million Park Avenue apartment under "penthouse arrest" -- even as his victims face financial ruin. On the What Were They Thinking? front (Journalism Division), came word that Bill Kristol, hot on the heels of being dropped by the Times, was being picked up by the Washington Post, which is apparently ...
