NEW: NYT columnist David Brooks draws a second salary for leading an Aspen Institute project funded

[soothsayer]

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NEW: NYT columnist David Brooks draws a second salary for leading an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook, Jeff Bezos' dad, & others. He didn't disclose this to readers. The Times refused to say if the paper was aware of Brooks' second salary: https://buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/david-brooks-nyt-weave-facebook-bezos…
7:33 PM · Mar 3, 2021

[Walleye]

1. Why was Steve Scully kicked off C-SPAN?

[Celerity]

2. I thought it was the Onion, but this was literally his latest column

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[harumph]

7. To be fair, the column in question was clearly satire

I read it and was entertained.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. That smarmy Moonie!

Failed to mention the actual occupations: inheritance and marriage — and the point of his work for Aspen and NYT.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Brooks makes far more noise than his insipid drivel warrants

There should be a shelf life on resident columnists. If you're so good and so important your fame will follow into private journalism. Hack quite the opposite.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. I wonder who's gonna tell PBS and NPR?

[jaxexpat]

6. He will miss no meals. I only wish he'd get off PBS. His toxicity has reached it's sell-by date.

His presence on PBS is proof that there may actually be monsters under the bed.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Brooks is the Hack of all Hacks- mystified why PBS hired him

Hopefully he will lose all his jobs.

[Paladin]

9. The Decline And Fall Of The NYT Opinion Section, Chapter 10,478.

I hope Brooks isn't drawing extra money for his ongoing circle-jerk with Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens, and (on those days when the boys let girls play) Maureen Dowd.

[not fooled]

10. Driftglass has something to say about this

As on so many other matters, he's been prescient in calling Brooks a highly conflicted, useless or worse sellout hack; been doing it for years.

[link:https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2021/03/david-brooks-new-york-times-honorary.html|]

Don't worry about David Brooks kids. Whatever you may hear over the next few days about double-dipping or featherbedding, he's gonna be fine.

Just fine.

For years he's had more side hustles than the Enterprise had Tribbles and it never bothered the House of Sulzberger one whit. There were the book deals and the small fortune in free promotion and free "book leave" time that his position at The New York Times afforded him.

And there were the speaking engagements.

And the Aspen Institute grift.

And that NPR gig.

And that PBS gig.

And that standing invitation to drop by Meet the Press whenever his public image needed to be fizzed up a bit.

And yet another writing gig at The Atlantic.

And for those of you with longer memories, you might remember back in 2011, when Mr. Brooks developed a sudden and passionate love of fracking, and he didn't care who knew it! Coincidentally, Mr. Brooks sudden and passionate love of fracking also just happened to correspond exactly with an ExxonMobile campaign to sell fracking to the public...

[soothsayer]

11. Jeezus

[stopdiggin]

12. so -- what you're saying is that

NYTimes (and other 'side jobs') are completely cognizant of other activity -- and have been all along? Breaking news!

[not fooled]

13. How about

that Brooks has obviously been a disingenuous and deceitful front for corporate interests, posing as an independent "thinker" mainstreaming ideas beneficial to some of the worst actors, when in fact he is a bought-and-paid-for shill?

That's pretty big news, except to people who consume propaganda uncritically.

[stopdiggin]

14. pretty much word for word true

except the 'pretty big news' line. It's not. Either to employers, or audience.