another -ista coinage

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/11/2012 02:48 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On May 11, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > At 5/11/2012 10:54 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> I thought it was interesting (synchronicitically if not ironically)
> >> that the column appeared in the same space otherwise occupied by the
> >> columns of David Brooks, who is one of his (unspoken) targets.
> >
>
> > Isn't this instead uninteresting (merely to be expected), since they
> > both are NYTimes Op Ed columnists?  They are forced to be room-mates.
> >
>Well, I found it interesting in that on Fridays the Brooks column
>normally appears on the extreme right (no political allusion
>intended) of the Op-Ed page, but today Krugman's column appears in
>that space instead.  At the bottom of Krugman's column a note
>appears saying "David Brooks is off today".  Brooks's most recent
>column, appearing in that space on Tuesday, was on "The Structural Revolution".

Ah -- My apologies, the NYT itself acknowledges that Krugman is in
Brooks's "today" space.  (I think Krugman sometimes has appeared
where he belongs, on the left, thus not encroaching on Brooks's
space.  And to me Brooks is always off.)

Joel

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