"The New York Times Is Not Built For This"

"This sort of absolute lack of a reason to exist is the hallmark of Frank Bruni columns. He writes with the haunted air of a man who has deadlines, but no ideas. He is living proof that it is possible to sustain a writing career for year after year without ever saying anything of import. The fact that he is employed in one of the most coveted opinion-writing jobs in the entire world is a crime. And yet—he fits right in.

At a moment in history when journalism itself is under attack and the New York Times is looked to by not just the industry but the entire liberal-minded half of the nation as an important institution to be defended and preserved, the paper carries a profoundly subpar roster of op-ed writers. These are the people who hold the writing jobs most likely to shape the contours of mainstream debate in Washington. This is a prestigious position at a prestigious publication that could have its pick of writers at home and abroad."

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-new-york-times-is-not-built-for-this-1793008337

FB: THIS IS SO REAL. "David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, and Maureen Dowd, the wheezing Trio of the Doomed, three animated corpses that long ago calcified into caricatures of themselves. These three ostensibly represent the entire respectable political spectrum but in fact represent little more than the fact that the New York Times op-ed page has more job security than the Supreme Court."