Krugman faux-pas

virgil tibbs sheik_of_encino at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 5 09:38:59 PST 2002


I saw that too and cringed.....but as they say, there is no such thing as bad press....

--- pms <laflame at aaahawk.com> wrote:
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/opinion/05KRUG.html?ex=1019012605&ei=1&en=
> 59284cdde8e9721e
>
> Krugman is going to get killed for this:
>
> "But this crisis is different, if only because it is
> so awful. The unfolding
> tragedy in the Middle East reduces me and many
> others to despair in a way
> that Sept. 11 never did."
>
> Is he nuts? Are the editors nuts? They couldn't
> add a coupla sentences to
> this paragraph to explain the nuance of this
> statement? One of the few
> people in mass media on a regular basis who says ok
> stuff and he has to
> write this? I can hear every right-wing talk-show,
> on radio, internet and
> tv, going on about this. A great tid-bit to feed the
> Rube Gallery. Another
> example of liberalism.
>
> Stupid, stupid, stupid. And right after I was all
> happy because Phil
> Donahue is coming back.
>
> Hey, what's better, cable or, how the fuck do you
> spell satelite? When will
> ATT buy up all the bankrupt assets of the telecom
> collapse and give me tv,
> internet and phone for $75/mo, please God? Sounds
> like a job for Carlyle.
>
>
>

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