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Perhaps this is the policy of the Post right now (buy out older columnists...).
I dislike concensus-n-middle-ground spewing, closet fifth columnists much worse....
Given the names that have been mentioned so far, it sure looks like it. Every one of these guys is as predictable as a stopped clock. He's fine on PTI but Wilbon both thinks and writes rings around him.
I view the "fifth columnists" as those who uncritically regurgitated the Bush Administration's lies that got in us into the Iraq war, while failing to mention that the chief beneficiary of the war would be Iran, our biggest enemy.
Completely agree. I grew up reading the post. I'd read Kornheiser for the occasional good joke he'd get off (one out of ten ain't that bad a percentage), but Wilbon for anything remotely original or insightful. The times a story was big enough that they'd each have a column dealing with it--basically any redskins game--were particularly unflattering for Tony.
I've always liked Kornhiser better on radio than in paper. I found his columns too cynical and usually not that funny (I don't think Gene Weingarten is very funny either - any word on buyout for him?)
Shales and Robin Givhan are ones I don't really care to read very often. I think Shales is at his best when writing about older classic tv shows, but I get the impression that he wouldn't have liked them if he would have been a critic when they were running.
The Post's reports on politics and security are great IMO (Dana Priest, Thomas Ricks, etc).
What does an article about Tony Kornheiser have to do with baseball? He's a pretty amusing commentator, but I can't even remember any great contibutions on baseball.
He is freelance, isn't he? I am pretty sure he is.
Tom Shales is the opposite of crap.
Shales took a buyout some time back, he is printed is paid on a per column basis now.
In his Post chat this week, Ricks confirmed that he'd been bought out too (though he indicated he'd still do stuff for the Post on a more limited basis).
I remember seeing Tom Shales on Siskel & Ebert a few years back. It was right after Siskel died, and Ebert was auditioning for new partners. Shales was pretty terrible, without any charisma, and he didn't express his opinions well at all. Needless to say, he didn't get the gig.
So I kind of see him as a frustrated TV reviewer who wants to break into movie reviews but can't. Kind of a critic version of David Caruso.
That's pretty much the entirety of the mainstream media, no (including the fake liberals at the Post & the NYTimes, all of whom pretty much constituted a harem for Donald Rumsfeld, if memory serves)?
They cry the blues all the time, but they're still among the most profitable newspapers in the country. And since they're family owned, they don't have to pay ridiculous amounts of attention to the bean counters who would otherwise want to take the Post down the road of USA Today.
The Post's reports on politics and security are great IMO (Dana Priest, Thomas Ricks, etc).
In his Post chat this week, Ricks confirmed that he'd been bought out too (though he indicated he'd still do stuff for the Post on a more limited basis).
That is terrible news, since not only is the Post's front section the only thing that separates it from rags like the Boston Globe and the LA Times, Ricks may be the best Pentagon reporter in the last 40 years. He completely indentifies with the troops (he wrote an entire book on the Parris Island boot camp), and he has the utmost respect for the military, but at the same time he has the greatest bullshlt detector on Earth when it comes to the Pentagon spin machine. The last thing that the Post needs is to lose reporters like him.
Yea, I saw him on a roundtable with TV critics on Charlie Rose a few months ago and Shales seemed to be the one that wasn't keeping up with the new shows. "I haven't seen this, but..."
Yes. Pretty much all columnists will be freelance/syndicated within another decade or two.
Sadly, that's true. Bush used 9/11 as a sword, and most of the MSM swallowed it all too willingly.
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