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Can you name the N.Y. Times Op-Ed Columnists?
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N.Y. Times Op-Ed Quiz
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jonnyboy180
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 18:59 GMT
-2 points
got kristof, but only cause i used one of his articles for a paper lol
Guinevere
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:02 GMT
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I got four, should have gotten six or maybe even seven (for some reason I was thinking Bill Kristol instead of Nicholas Kristof). A couple of these I don't think I've even heard of.
Kicking222
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:14 GMT
1 point
Awesome, awesome quiz. I could only think of three, unfortunately, but the idea for the quiz was great.
cmkeller
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:20 GMT
1 point
Is William Safire no longer a regular Time Op-Ed writer?
Zmaz
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 21:44 GMT
3 points
No, nowadays Safire mostly contributes to the "On Language" column in the Times Magazine.
Zack_Morris
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 22:50 GMT
2 points
Bill Kristol wrote for the paper until January of this year.
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supernitro
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Aug 3rd, 2009 at 23:02 GMT
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RandallPinkston
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Aug 4th, 2009 at 06:37 GMT
1 point
Can it be that David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, and Thomas Friedman are only in the Op-Ed once a week? It seems like I glance by their columns far more frequently than that. This link seems to agree: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/index.html.
Jonathan:
Aug 4th, 2009 at 22:09 GMT
1 point
These are, to a large degree, the public intellectuals of our day. I think they're all interesting in their own way, and the opinion section has grown to be my favorite of the NYTimes. I'm a little sad that people don't do better on this quiz.
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Ephraim
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Aug 5th, 2009 at 02:15 GMT
-5 points
The New York Times is in dire financial trouble for a number of reasons. One of them is the sorry state of the Op-Ed pages. Dowd, Krugman, and Rich are so ideologically biased, that very few people trust them or the paper itself.
Babomomebeo
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Aug 5th, 2009 at 15:15 GMT
2 points
Jonathan: don't let the results fool you. Usually people don't remember journalists unless they're really bad. I read the Op-Ed page almost every day last year but could only recall two names.
Julian
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Aug 5th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT
3 points
@Ephraim: I suppose that's precisely why Krugman won a Nobel Prize . . .
Ephraim
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Aug 5th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT
-1 points
Yeah. That sounds about right.
InsertCleverName
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Aug 6th, 2009 at 04:28 GMT
5 points
You're right...people don't trust Friedman, Dowd, and Rich. Too bad they lost Bill Kristol, whose analysis and predictions were always spot-on. War in Iraq, Sarah Palin, does the man ever NOT pick a winner?
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