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Is This Man Unfit to Print?

Posted Jan 25, 08 2:30 PM CST in Arts & Living,  US 

(Newser) – The criticism that rained down on the New York Times following the hiring of William Kristol as the op-ed page's second conservative voice not only hasn't died down, the New Republic reports, but is mounting—and the call is coming from inside the house. Multiple mostly anonymous current and former staff members blast what one calls " a very odd choice."

The paper's public editor callied the appointment "a decision I would not have made," a judgment backed by iconic Times right-wing voice William Safire. Kristol didn't help his case by making a factual error in his debut column, and the perception that he and his cohorts influenced the paper's approach to the Iraq war sticks in the craw of one "appalled" ex-employee "because he called for prosecuting the Times for treason."
Source: New Republic

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