>Well, remember the NY Times is the paper where the insufferable
>Abe Rosenthal's column appeared for a good many years.
>He must have been one of the worst columnists to have ever
>graced the pages of a major American newspaper.
Oh, I don't mean to say that Herbert's the worst thing in the NYT. Friedman is ludicrous. Tierney and Brooks regularly flirt with self-parody. Going back, no one could hold a candle to the awfulness of Anthony Lewis - or, heaven forbid, Flora Lewis. Cockburn did that great piece about C.L. Sulzberger shooting dense volleys of cliche into the preconceptions of his readers that's in Corruptions of Empire. The guest contributors to that page are often screamingly bad.
Doug