How the typical wage earner
appears to Fred Hiatt
This morning Howard Kurtz is still wondering how the print media will survive?
I cannot believe that he is missing the business model that the New York Times adopted some time ago and which his own paper is now emulating.
The plight of the struggling wealthy taunted by their inability to have every luxury and convenience available to the even wealthier. And all this at a time when their local Costco has decided to stop stocking the 64-count Kirkland Brand tiny violins, or so their personal shopper tells them.
Why it’s almost as if the editors and upper management of the Times and Post were fixated on their own six-figure salaries and smaller than the normal bonuses of recent years.
Imagine if Fred Hiatt only made in the high-five figures or less and had to worry about paying for his insurance premiums and the increasing tuition at a state school for his kids after he hasn’t had a raise in five years?
Who would want to live in such a country where those concerns were common place, let alone report on them? The horror!
Certainly not the management our nation’s most prominent newspapers.
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I’d gladly pay $1000 a year for an honest-to-Dog paper. But not if you’re on staff, Howie.
Good morning, pups. There are 2 columnists in the Times today. One is Krugman. You know who the other one is. I will never mention his name again. That pasty little putz says we should be “Telling Grandma ‘No’.” He gurgles that Republicans should stick to defending the younger generation’s pocketbooks rather than strategically championing old-age entitlements. Prof. Krugman discusses “The Swiss Menace” and tells us that the Democratic health care reform plan most resembles the system in Switzerland, despite comparisons to the approaches taken in Britain and Canada.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and the biscuits are out of the oven. Now that I’ve read the PLP’s whine I need to take a shower. Have a great day.
Fred Hiatt has decided to close the WaPo National Weekly Edition. Sharon Scott, the Weakly Edition’s editor, states the obvious:
Keep pandering to old, white Republican men, gentlemen.
This is not your father’s Washington Post.
Unfortunately, I didn’t know, so had to look it up. But I should have known, since I saw what he looks like for the first time this past Friday night on Bill Maher’s show. And, yes, “pasty little putz” is a most apt description. Thanks.
I’m sorry you had to see that face again. It’s not anything I would wish on anyone first thing on Monday morning!
Thanks to Marion I have never read anything from the pillsbury doughboy and now, having looked him up on Wiki, I don’t think I ever will. Nasty little rich boy with absolutely no experience or understanding of the real lives of 95% of the country.
I’m actually looking forward to the WaPo becoming nothing more than a weekly community newspaper. David Broder can provide his deep insights into the local city council and planning commission.
When I saw him on Maher’s program on Friday night, I exclaimed incredulously to my wife: “That’s what Douthat looks like?!” I guess somehow I expected horns and fangs. I then explained to my wife what an asshole he is, and then he disappointed me there too; he was on somewhat good behavior.
Kurtz
It has nothing to do with them trying to pass off propaganda as news…
Woodstock Nation. Best people ever.
Just about everything you’ll ever need to know about the pasty little putz is summed up here. Talk about being squicked out…
Sounds like the PLP just read Boomsday by Christopher Buckley.
Same general plot line anyway. Except for Buckley it was satire and the PLP
is serious.
OT yet really on topic
our family is happy, blessed with the joys of life and the capacity to handle the sorrows.
But it just recently sunk in as we begin our (forced) retirement years, that educated beyond our salaries we, unlike our parents, have never been middleclass…we always thought we were but our income never reached middleclass!
The inability of so many Americans to share is crime of our country.
The PLP seems to have found a middle ground that combines both FYIGM and YOYO. Great place to be if you don’t much care about anyone else.
Very slow morning. Maybe people are beginning to make plans for leaving the United Corporations of America.
Early Morning Swim is up.
It was a dark and stormy nite……….
And this is why I really don’t give a crap if print media ceases completely. There will always be journalism in some form. What we currently have in print is nothing more than infotainment and/or shills for status quo. My brother asked whom he could believe (in getting his information), and I said, nobody. I actually prefer the tabloids to the traditional media because at least the former are honest about what they’re doing. The latter? Not so much. As for pasty puffy boy, I will not read him ever again. I rely on the kindness of strangers for my shorter Douthat.