Word: columnists
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...things have changed. "With newspapers entering bankruptcy even as their audience grows, the threat is not just to the companies that own them, but also to the news itself," wrote the savvy New York Times columnist David Carr last month in a column endorsing the idea of paid content. This creates a necessity that ought to be the mother of invention. In addition, our two most creative digital innovators have shown that a pay-per-drink model can work when it's made easy enough: Steve Jobs got music consumers (of all people) comfortable with the concept of paying...
...high-minded solution that would work at 30,000 feet. But the Holbrooke who arrives in Islamabad on Feb. 9, not as a columnist but as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, will have to deal with ugly reality on the ground. Faced with a failing Afghanistan, the U.S. needs Pakistan's government and military leadership to work together to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctuaries along the lawless northwestern border between the two countries, crack down on Islamic militants at home and protect the country's nuclear bombs...
...mailbag, ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons wrote, “I’m still waiting to meet my first Princeton grad that I might like. I am like 0-for-79. Princeton grads carry themselves like bad guys in a sports movie...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, Blow the House Down...
...there are more serious critiques of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from more serious critics. The most compelling critique - offered by Clinton Administration budget chief Alice Rivkin and Democratic Senator Ben Nelson as well as principled conservatives like New York Times columnist David Brooks and Reagan Administration economics adviser Martin Feldstein - is that an $800 billion stimulus package ought to be all about stimulus. They're not the Hooverish partisans who are whining that the package has turned into a "spending plan," as if government spending were a preposterous strategy for jump-starting the economy. They're concerned with...