NYTimes: The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers

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A regular op ed pays $150

# ¿ Jul 6, 2017 08:05

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:22

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"I had to stop my friend, through a series of grunts and firm-but-not-intimidating eye contact, from using a book as a napkin after she ate her half of the burrito. She put the rest in her purse and said her baby could eat it, so long as she sprinkled some goldfish crackers and chocolate milk on it."

# ¿ Jul 12, 2017 10:26

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In snob literary circles, telling your friends that you're going to take on infinite jest is like climbing Everest: you have to set aside a chunk of your life to do it, it's miserable though not particularly hard vs. other more respectable challenges, and a lot of your friends are secretly hoping you'll die in the process.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2017 01:37

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Making fun of infinite jest isn't the same as making fun of DFW. His essays are outstanding. But whoever called his work middlebrow hit the nail on the head.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2017 03:22

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the bitcoin of weed posted:

last i heard they were firing a bunch of their actual reporters to hire more fascists for their op-ed page

They were buying out copy editors

After 2016 I'm not sure how anyone can take NYTimes seriously, and their effort to "correct" mistakes is even more embarrassing. Story for story they're great, especially on non-political domestic coverage, but overall it's another poo poo media company sucking up to whoever is in power.

Also the latest subscription gimmick with Spotify was pretty cringe worthy

# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 13:11

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Good News!

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# ¿ Aug 14, 2017 17:57

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Someone whose opinions "range widely" is code for centrist.

It's code for "stirs enough poo poo to grow readership through shares and forwards"

# ¿ Aug 14, 2017 20:47

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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/902153868070469634

# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 16:32

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This can just be the David Brooks thread

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/brooks-klein-tom-prices-plane-scandal-trump-taking-aim-nfl/

David Brooks on PBS posted:

DAVID BROOKS: If Donald Trump thought he was a good secretary of defense � of health and human services, and he knew his policies, which he did � he knew the policies � and he was generally supportive, which, as far as I could see, he was, then this scandal doesn�t merit a firing/resignation.

He made Trump look bad. And Trump�s only loyalty is to himself. So, I get that. He had to go.

But, personally, I think the government should have a fleet of planes to take around Cabinet secretaries. It would just be more efficient. Any company of any size has this sort of thing. And so this scandal makes Trump look bad, but it certainly doesn�t merit firing, I would say.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2017 21:13

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H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lindy "And that's why it is politically transgressive to simply be fat and happy in public. It is against all the rules" west

that nut graf tho

quote:

For the bazillionth time, it is known, I am pretty fat. We have covered this. And yet, contrary to popular belief, I sometimes participate in non-fat activities such as exercising, enjoying a crispy salad, not crying, wearing a pencil skirt, and not reclining under the gravy spout all day while I wait for Jerry Springer to de-fuse my giant butt from my toilet. It's true! Go ahead and verify it! E-mail my mom! I will wait.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2017 20:14

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An edgy sense of humor

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 16:31

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It must suck to be whichever illuminati delegate to the NYT that David Brooks has dirt on.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2017 14:38

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/what-if-ken-starr-was-right.html

Ross Douthat and his helipad-sized forehead posted:

What if Ken Starr Was Right?

This new narrative lines up with what�s often been my own assessment of the Clinton scandals. I have never been a Clinton hater; indeed, I�ve always been a little mystified by the scale of Republican dislike for the most centrist of recent Democratic leaders. So I�ve generally held what I�ve considered a sensible middle-ground position on his sins � that he should have stepped down when the Lewinsky affair came to light, but that the Republican effort to impeach him was a hopeless attempt to legislate against dishonor.

But a moment of reassessment is a good time to reassess things for yourself, so I spent this week reading about the lost world of the 1990s. I skimmed the Starr Report. I leafed through books by George Stephanopoulos and Joe Klein and Michael Isikoff. I dug into Troopergate and Whitewater and other first-term scandals. I reacquainted myself with Gennifer Flowers and Webb Hubbell, James Riady and Marc Rich.

After doing all this reading, I�m not sure my reasonable middle ground is actually reasonable. It may be that the conservatives of the 1990s were simply right about Clinton, that once he failed to resign he really deserved to be impeached.

Ladies and gentlemen...the ______ New York Times (fill in the blank)

# ¿ Nov 19, 2017 16:24

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LinYutang posted:

lol I'm sure the suburbanites who voted Trump in are Desperate and Scared

trup voters were just following orders

# ¿ Dec 6, 2017 05:25

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Fear is finite so the fewer things you have to be afraid of, the more fear you spend on those things

Also, white people have a racial trait of +10000% fear points to allocate

# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 13:13

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Main Paineframe posted:

the failing new york times does it again

https://twitter.com/eswillwalker/status/946135716068601856

as a bonus, have some talk about how those worthless unemployed millennials just need to be homeless and carless so that they can learn to really pull themselves up by their bootstraps
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/946127348746899456

Well mistakes such as getting fired and failing out of college are pretty much timeless so you can't pin that on millenials being screwed as a generation.

Ironic how parents try to make up for 18 years of lovely parenting by suddenly forcing a reality-check on their kids because an online columnist told them to.

The true mistake here though was allowing Cheryl Strayed anywhere near the failing new york times. Not a good look.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2017 08:41

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KaptainKrunk posted:

someone really needs to write a book on people like Klein

like do these guys just read mid-20th century policy books, mix it together with econ 101 and a dash of Friedmanite (both of them) garbage? I think it's a combination of that and always looking to make reality out to be more complex than it is that prevents liberals like Klein from just understanding Republicans are Bad.

Klein is trump for libs; he doesn�t understand anything he just barks in a way that idiot followers can go �whoa yeah me too �

# ¿ Jan 20, 2018 06:04

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:22

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God it�s Lena Dunham in columnist form

# ¿ Mar 10, 2018 08:23

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