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To: KLP who wrote (140526)	9/26/2005 2:02:57 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793999

Well speaking of great good humor and defending the beloved NYT..... Just a trivial "nudge" of humor. LOL.... The price the Times will pay in order to hide from its critics in the age of online opinion journalism will be the loss of influence. And the Angry Left — whose hateful agenda has been given undeserved credibility thanks to fellow-traveling Times pundits like Krugman, Dowd, and Rich — knows it all too well. The most vile of the Angry Left bloggers, Markos Moulitsas, said as much on his Daily Kos blog this week: You want your dose of Peggy Noonan ... or John Fund, or James Taranto? You’ve got them [on the Wall Street Journal’s free OpinionJournal.com]. No pesky paywall between their opinion content and the people they hope to influence. The New York Times, on the other hand, is the textbook definition of stupid ... Suddenly, overnight, Brooks and Friendman [sic] and Krugman and Herbert have been ripped out of the national debate ... So the Wall Street Journal works hard to be a top influencer in the national debate. And the New York Times works hard to become a provincial paper. Wish granted. He’s right. Already, just a week after the launch of TimesSelect, Krugman’s columns — which typically top the Times’s list of “most e-mailed articles” — have fallen to the bottom. As Krugman Truth Squad member Robert Musil observed on his Man Without Qualities blog, last Friday Krugman’s column ranked 23rd out of a field of 25. nationalreview.com