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Did NYT Fire Bill Kristol for Failure to Check Facts or Disloyalty?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Makes you wonder if such a standard will be required of the Times' liberal contributors given what the Daily Beast reported moments ago: ...
More on Kristol: Out for Lousy Fact-Checking?
The Washington Note —
... Blurring edges is not necessarily an exclusively neoconservative trait, but Scott Horton reports it is something that began to really irk New York Times editors about seemingly hurried columns that Bill Kristol rushed to them. ...
Hiatt on Kristol: 'very smart, plugged-in guy"
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... The Daily Beast reports that issues of accuracy, more than ideology, could have been a factor in the decision not to re-up at the Times. ...
Conservative Bill Kristol Has Left The New York Times Op-Ed Page Building
The Moderate Voice —
... “Playboy has now come out with a magazine for married men. It has the same pictures month after month after month…”)
Kristol has long been lambasted by many on the left due to his positions and ideas — but that wasn’t the problem here. The problem was that he didn’t seem quite ready for Prime Time as high-profile “bigtime” conservative columnists are on the Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
Meanwhile, The Daily Beast has a report that confirms many of these conclusions. It reports: ...
Kristol-nacht at the NYT
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
The New York Times' sacking of Bill Kristol was for "sloppiness and uneven quality" according to Scott Horton.
Kristol’s writing wasn’t compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn’t putting his heart into it. A give-away came in the form of four corrections the newspaper was forced to run over factual mistakes in the columns, creating an impression that they were rushed out without due diligence or attention to factual claims. A senior writer at Time magazine recounted to me a ...
Old Gray Lady Informs Kristol That Obama Won
Wizbang —
The New York Times has apparently fired Bill Kristol because he is a sloppy writer (Paul Krugman and Frank Rich were unavailable for comment). The Daily Beast reports that the firing may have been the culmination of a series of Kristol shortcomings, one of which happened on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show : Appearing once again on The Daily Show, Bill Kristol, Jon Stewart's favorite whipping boy ('Bill Kristol, aren't you ever right?'), on Thursday night defended the McCain-Palin ticket, at one point informing the show's host that he was getting his news from suspect sources. ...
Your Liberal Media–Bill Kristol Edition
Firedoglake —
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In which a villager (h/t Digby) explains more than they meant to about how their business works
A source close to the Times familiar with the decision not to renew Kristol’s contract makes clear that ...
Yes They Can!
Whiskey Fire —
... The fundamental problem, after all, is that the people who run the New York Times op-ed page are cretins. Apparently he was fired because he was and is a for-shit writer. But it's not like that shittiness emerged out of nowhere in 2008. Kristol has always been a shitty writer, and there's no reason the NYT should not have known that: ...
"This is William Kristol’s last column."
Crooks and Liars —
... : Bill Kristol no longer writes a column for the New York Times. Sadly, it took the Old Grey Lady more than a year to realize that Kristol was not only an ideological hack, but a sloppy and uneven one to boot. Today, we were informed via italicized footnote -- ...
The Times They Are A-Changing, But Not That Much
If I Ran the Zoo —
... ...The New York Times may have shitcanned Bill Kristol, but that doesn't mean they've joined the Reality-Based Community. From Scott Horton: ...
are we clear? kristol!
skippy the bush kangaroo —
boo hoo, boo hoo. those crocadile tears we are crying are for bill "sarah palin's hot" kristol, who lost his job today, only 12 months after he should have: ...
Kristol Done at the Times
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... of no one who has been paying any attention, Bill Kristol is a NYT columnist no longer.
And while some will say that it was because of his ideology, I say nay: it was because he columns weren’t any good (note some recent ruminations by me on the subject here). Indeed, Kristol’s ideology is what got him hired, but in reading his stuff I can say with certainty it was simply not very well written.
As Scott Horton of the Daily Beast notes:
The problems that emerged were more fundamental. Kristol’s writing wasn’t ...
Bill Kristol's Op-Ed Column: The New York Times's Gain is the Washington Post's Loss
Hit & Run —
... the decision for Kristol to leave the paper was mutual, Scott Horton at the Daily Beast says it was a canning in an anoymously sourced piece, not for his ideology but because of sloppiness and, maybe even worse, disloyalty to his employer: ...
New NY Times Columnist Envisions a Cheney Candidacy
Politics Daily —
... Douthat goes on to call Cheney's current trashing of the Obama administration "bad form" and "distinctly unwelcome"-- presumably because he wants to last longer at The New York Times than Kristol did. ...
