Gawker
Date: 2011-03-14
Author: Hamilton Nolan

Article Mentions
Author, Hamilton Nolan
Mentioned, Maureen Dowd
Mentioned, Bill Keller
Mentioned, Frank Rich
Mentioned, Bob Herbert
Mentioned, David Brooks
Mentioned, Roger Cohen
Mentioned, Joe Nocera
Mentioned, Mark Bittman
Mentioned, Thomas Friedman
Mentioned, Nick Kristof
Mentioned, Paul Krugman
Mentioned, Ross Douthat
Mentioned, Gail Collins
Mentioned, Glenn Greenwald
Mentioned, NADA
Mentioned, The New York Times
Mentioned, Audi
Bill Keller, the editor of the world's most influential newspaper, may be losing his mind. He made the poor choice to start writing his own column, which promptly went to hell in its second week. He wrote a whiny, trite, un-self-aware media column, ensuring that most people wouldn't care, and those who cared would find his work embarrassing. Bill tried to recover from this mini-fiasco by writing a blog post that was equal to the column in its self-righteousness, as well as in its patronizing tone. Allow us to reiterate the overarching problem here for you, Bill: you already edit America's greatest paper. You have absolutely nothing, zero, nada to gain by indulging your latent columnizing itch. All you will do is drag yourselfand the entire ...(read more)
... Bill Keller, the editor of the world's most influential newspaper, may be losing his mind. He made the poor choice to start writing his own column, which promptly went to hell in its second week. He wrote a whiny, trite, un-self-aware media column, e ...
... long ago stopped trying to give topics deep and productive intellectual consideration, in favor of constructing easy narratives and catchy nicknames for politicians that would mesh easily with outdated pop culture references. She's essentially given ...


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