Shame on the New York Times

[Garson O'Toole]

It is enormously disappointing that the New York Times is halting such
a wonderful column. I think it reflects the rough economic dislocation
the Times is enduring. Buying the Boston Globe became a multi-billion
dollar blunder. Yet, troubles have engulfed the entire newspaper and
magazine business in the United States.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
>> ending the On Language column, which Ben wrote well.
>
> That "takes the meat!" as we used to say, in the Army. I loved that
> column even when Safire was writing it! And then, when Ben took
> over... Well, what can I say? To quote the mantra of an old Army
> buddy, Ed Turkington - he grew up to retire as a dean from UChi - used
> to say, and rightly:
>
> "The world is full of assholes!"
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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