reason.com - 7/7/2009
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Over at the Washington Post , omniscient child pundit Ezra Klein attempts to solve the inevitable underlying economic context behind the Post getting caught last week trying to peddle its own ass to health care lobbyists: The question, then, is whether we want newspapers (and magazines, and so ...
reason.com - 7/7/2009
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reason.com —
Earlier today, Matt Welch took a few well-deserved
shots at Ezra Klein and his novel solution to
the economic troubles facing his employer, The Washington Post . You probably don't need it, but I'll give you a hint anyway: it involves higher taxes ...
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The Dumbed-Down Beeb and the Timid Swedes
voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/2/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
I used to work for a very large
company. Someone once asked the HR guy: why can't
we get better health benefits (this was, oh, 10 + years ago). He said: well, we're a really large employer, there aren't so many companies that would be able to cover ...
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Ezra Klein
- More From the HELP Bill
voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/7/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Excellent point Ezra and one that isn't made
nearly often enough. I tend to think of it
is a pie chart of 47 million uninsured, with two big slices being: 1. Medicaid Expansion, i.e., catching all the Alabama’s up to all the Massachusetts’ 2. ...
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Ezra Klein
- The Five Most Important Pieces of ...
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All the News That's Fit to Subidize
The Corner on National Review Online —
... , bluntly dismantles Klein's thinly veiled apologia for his employer's misdeeds . Then Michael Moyihan, a former longtime resident of Sweden who actually knows something about the Swedish and European news subsidies Klein is attempting to praise, queues up to ...
The Next Time Someone Complains That Newspapers Are "Unprofitable"
Hit & Run —
Send them this Newsosaur link, derived from the latest Inland Press Association snapshot of the industry: [T]he largest newspapers reported profits averaging 12% of sales at the end of 2008, according to the Inland study. A 12% profit margin is more than double that achieved last year by Wal-Mart Stores, the largest of the Fortune 1,000 companies. A 12% pre-tax profit is just about a percentage point light of the margins run by Exxon and Chevron, the second and third largest corporations behind Wal-Mart on the Fortune list. Yes, the industry trend lines (pictured) remain horrible, ...
Blogger Brutality
Weekly Standard Blog —
If you like watching baby seals get clubbed, then you'll love this post by Reason's Matt Welch.
Michael Moynihan piles on here.
MATT WELCH explains things to Ezra Klein.
Instapundit —
MATT WELCH explains things to Ezra Klein.
MEDIA BAILOUTS: MATT WELCH explains things to Ezra Klein. Michael Moynihan lends a hand. Hey, the…
Instapundit —
MEDIA BAILOUTS: MATT WELCH explains things to Ezra Klein. Michael Moynihan lends a hand. Hey, the press got Obama elected, it wants its payoff.
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The Trouble With State Media
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Matt Welch and Michael C. Moynihan beat up on Ezra Klein. Moynihan: If Auntie Beeb has avoided sensationalism, as Klein claims, how does he explain the BBC's own chairman acknowledging that the programming has been significantly "dumbed ...
Ezra Klein Says Things That Are the Opposite of True*
The Corner on National Review Online —
... and the current enthusiasm for subsidizing everything from investment banks to cars, it's probably only matter of time before Klein is editing the federally subsidized Washington Pravda another ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/23/2009 —
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Budget Reconciliation and Health Care Reform: Round Three
WWW.samefacts.com 8/4/2009 — "There is only one worse thing than being talked about," Oscar Wilde noted. "And that is not being talked about."
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