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DeLong To Collender: The Washington Post Isn't Worth It

02 Aug 2009
Posted by Stan Collender

Over at his own blog, Brad DeLong argues that my post on The Washington Post was wrong.  He doesn't disagree with my basic point that the Post didn't need to apologize for its plan to monetarize its assets by charging lobbyists and others a fee to attend dinners at its publisher's home, he just doesn't want to enable the Post by creating a new source of revenue for a newspaper whose reporting and analysis he finds dismal.

Someone please remind me not ever to get on Brad's bad side.

 

 

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The New York Times Company has been flailing about trying to salvage its $1.1 billion (1993) investment in the Boston Globe. Problems have included a collapse in the market for print advertising here in New England, competition from online sources of information, and difficulties in negotiating with 13 separate unions (see Mancur Olson for how
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As a veteran...

...of the Semi-Daily Journal Wars, I'd say you need to refrain from winning too many arguments with Brad and his acolytes, if you want to avoid getting on his Bad DeLong side.





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