In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/
"I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left."
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times
I see a Ross Douthat article and I'm like nope not reading that poop.
Like abandoning their responsibilities as Fourth Estate.
Conscious pro-regime choice
It is a huge loss that the NYT didn't keep him or pushed him out.
But he does write on substack and he is still just as good as ever.
A considerable intellect, but he didn't usually apply it to his New York Times editorials.
No.
So it might have been best if I deleted the tweet, because I was working from data around 7,000 days old.
Keeps the suckers subscribed
It was still a bunch of really bad decisions, though.
If we’re lucky, this will be an extinction-level mistake and the outlets that didn’t become the new media.