>_Fortune_ came calling, offering more than three times the pay of
>the _NYT_ for a once-a-month column. I wanted to do both. _NYT_ said
>no: that _Fortune_ was a competitor of theirs. I said this was
>absurd, and that they had already let Virginia Postrel do both
>"Economic Scene" and a monthly column for _Forbes_.
>
>I thought the _NYT_ was bluffing. It wasn't...
Hmm, interesting you should make the decision on such purely economic terms. Wouldn't more people read you in the NYT, with a wider demographic than Fortune too.
Doug