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Topic: A Mind of Their Own,
and the Freedom to Speak It |
A Mind of Their Own,
and the Freedom to Speak It
New York Times, by Margaret Sullivan
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 2/23/2013 8:28:37 PM
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| Several years ago, the columnist Paul Krugman veered from his usual practice of writing about the economy and began writing columns about the war in Iraq. (Snip) Readers ask me about this on a fairly regular basis: How much freedom do The Times’s star columnists have? Are they edited or directed at all? Given their stature, would anyone dare? Robert Manson of Marlborough, Mass., posed the question recently in an e-mail: “I know that Times columnists are free to choose to write what they please, and I certainly consider that to be a good thing. However, I am writing to ask whether there
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Comments:
I think this article was the New York Times weak "mea culpa" for what their columnist write. Since they all tend to be leaning far to port, after imbibing in some drug of choice, it really doesn´t matter if they are "censured" by their editors. How hard is it to plagiarize the next person when it´s your turn to attack all things GOP? And, since there are always the dRATS talking points to use, it can´t be copying. Or, are they bullet points, with the rapid way they fire them off as 0bama needs them?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 2/23/2013 8:54:15 PM (No. 9192920)
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. . .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 2/23/2013 9:26:38 PM (No. 9192938)
Slaves to the ideology! Don´t look out the window!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/23/2013 11:44:09 PM (No. 9193017)
Echo-o-o-o chamber-r-r-r-r........
FTA: "Then Wall Street blew up the world economy, which moved me into comfortable terrain for all concerned."
Right. Wall Street did it. They love disaster and dysfunction, and capital hoarded in the face of rational fears rather than invested and growing. Leftist upending of the mortgage and lending markets had nothing to do with it. Hideously indebted foreign gov´ts had nothing to do with it.
And Stinky signing our names to some $6 trillion in added debt in the last few years, no Federal budget during his Administration, and policies that finally forced rating agencies to downgrade US debt for the first time ever[!] -- hey, that borrowing´s gonna pay off. It will. It will. Paul sez so.
Remind me again of your all-star work at Enron, was it?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/24/2013 12:45:41 AM (No. 9193031)
They don´t need anyone telling them what they can or cannot write. 99% of them are thoroughly vetted hard-core leftists who are all programmed to say basically the same thing 100% the time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DrDeWIlde, 2/24/2013 2:28:59 AM (No. 9193056)
How are we to interpret the title of this article from the NYT?
A mind (singular) of their (plural) own and the freedom to speak it (singular).
Does this construction arise out of ignorance and bad grammar or is Sullivan subconsciously telling the world that all of the NYT writers have one mind?
I´m thinking the answer is "yes".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lilo, 2/24/2013 6:51:57 AM (No. 9193129)
Blah, blah, blah. Predictable leftist blather is all the NYT prints. Read one columnist, you´ve read them all. Groupthink, political correctness (aka censorship), stupid flyover Americans, incredibly noble minority group du jour. Blah, blah blah.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam, 2/24/2013 7:01:37 AM (No. 9193143)
Two year-olds playing in their poo, fascinated.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
plumnellie, 2/24/2013 8:16:22 AM (No. 9193228)
Who is the Times fav Repub? Would love to see posters nominations.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/24/2013 11:24:29 AM (No. 9193540)
#5: Indeed, the Left is of one feeble, febrile mind [it´s mandatory!]. But I agree, the real problem is more poor English! Arrgh!
"Minds of their own" works OK, but -- then what? Of course, simply saying "Free to Speak Their Own Minds" gets us there directly and clearly. But -- it has insufficient nasal elevation. It´s short on "hoity" or "toity." I´m not sure which.
In their Leftist dedication to PC "gender" [meaning sex] inclusiveness, they just cannot bring themselves to use "he." They are ignorant of the fact that in English, in certain constructions, "he" takes neuter gender.
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