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28. Thirty years ago I was in a focus group that the NY Times had commissioned

Wed Sep 25, 2013, 01:21 PM

Sep 2013

for how to expand into the SFBay (or maybe nationwide). I told the people behind the mirrors repeatedly that a real newspaper has daily comics and I wouldn't bother with a paper that didn't. I had recently been in the business and praised the SF Chronicle and the SJ Mercury.

With Judith Miller, their war against Wen Ho Le and the Clinton's, the NYT has really amounted to nothing more than the worst of Joe Pulitizer and WR Hearst's yellow journalism. They have opinion writers of a very narrow political spectrum who write no better than college undergrads and really don't know their own subjects. I make an exception for Paul Krugman who actually seems to have credentials to write about economics. Why they haven't fired him for a 1% cheerleader, puzzles me. And the Washington Post doesn't seem to be any better.

News in the US is an embarrassment. And the opinion pages are worse.

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Maureen Dowd's constant snark is really, really tiresome. [View all] markpkessinger Sep 2013 OP

I seem to recall she was quite enamored of the president early on. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2013 #1

GMTA! I did the same with her column today. CTyankee Sep 2013 #2

Pardon my ignorance, but what is GMTA? FourScore Sep 2013 #4

They're acronyms leftynyc Sep 2013 #6

Technically, an acronym should be one that you pronounce as a word muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #9

Not according to this leftynyc Sep 2013 #12

Well, I hadn't read that, but notice it says some dictionaries say muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #13

Great minds think alike. CTyankee Sep 2013 #25

Her polemics and hyperbole can be entertaining, sharp, and cutting. leveymg Sep 2013 #3

Personally, I find her to be the most over-rated columnist out there -- FourScore Sep 2013 #5

She's a total windbag trumad Sep 2013 #7

This ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2013 #17

Best. Analogy. EVER! FourScore Sep 2013 #26

She's a gossip columnist. RevStPatrick Sep 2013 #8

Your father sounds like a newspaperman of quality and taste... JHB Sep 2013 #15

Yes, he was a "newspaperman." RevStPatrick Sep 2013 #16

Does anyone pay much attention to her now? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #10

Like a lot of witty women when she was younger lunatica Sep 2013 #11

I don't think there is anything wrong with bitter sarcasm Johonny Sep 2013 #14

I would say that the Rude Pundit's sarcasm is pretty joyous. He's not angry or bitter, he is having stevenleser Sep 2013 #23

Good take. She's what we call too clever by half. Demit Sep 2013 #30

There's a difference between humorous sarcasm and bitter sarcasm lunatica Sep 2013 #35

I've always believed Dowd's audience is not greater America but the Skidmore Sep 2013 #18

Well said! Scurrilous Sep 2013 #27

No, her constant snark is not tiresome AngryAmish Sep 2013 #19

You never know which way the wind is blowing when Dowd pens an article. Rex Sep 2013 #20

Sophomoric DemocracyInaction Sep 2013 #21

I have to say I never cared for her at all. hrmjustin Sep 2013 #22

She lost me when she worked so hard to get Bush elected in 2000 Orrex Sep 2013 #24

Thirty years ago I was in a focus group that the NY Times had commissioned The Second Stone Sep 2013 #28

I can't remember a time when she wasn't overrated, decidely NOT liberal, SheilaT Sep 2013 #29

The 2nd paragraph ... GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #31

Honestly, I can't believe anyone reads her column in the first place quinnox Sep 2013 #32

Her other "tell" is her use of "Barry" to refer to Obama July Sep 2013 #33

You know, there is an easy solution to your problem. LWolf Sep 2013 #34

She's just bitter that it's not 1999. nt Dreamer Tatum Sep 2013 #36