Can you name the N.Y. Times Op-Ed Columnists?

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N.Y. Times Op-Ed Quiz

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Published: August 3rd, 2009
Category: Literature
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Tags: newspaper, New York Times, op-ed, columnist, writer

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	jonnyboy180:	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:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	0 points
	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:	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:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:20 GMT	1 point
	Is William Safire no longer a regular Time Op-Ed writer?

	Zmaz:	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:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	2 points
	Bill Kristol wrote for the paper until January of this year.

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	RandallPinkston:	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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	Babomomebeo:	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:	Aug 5th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	3 points
	@Ephraim: I suppose that's precisely why Krugman won a Nobel Prize . . .

	Ephraim:	Aug 5th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	-1 points
	Yeah. That sounds about right.

	InsertCleverName:	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?