Joe Biden's health plan looks like the winner

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Maggie Haberman, for instance, is an employee of the NYT. That's who she works for.

David Brooks is no more an employee of the NYT than Paul Krugman is.

Brooks, Douthat, Krugman are all, at best, independent contractors. The NYT pays them per column because the NYT thinks they will draw eyes, advertisers, and clicks.

The NYT may or may not fact-check the columns on the op-ed page; the fact that Brooks and Douthat periodically commit howlers calls that proposition into question.

My point is this: We are asked here to take the analysis of an avowed libertarian as meaningful evidence in a debate. We are asked to lend that analysis particular credence because it is published in the NYT.

IMHO, the fact that something appears on the NYT op-ed page makes it no more convincing than someone's opinion on Democratic Underground.

You look at their credentials and their biases and factor that into how much weight to give their argument.

Your mileage, clearly, varies.