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Home Front: Culture Wars
Dummest. Move. Ever.
2007-05-07
Hugh Hewitt:

Let's see. Your circulation is crashing. The value of your paper has plummeted. Everyone in the industry recognizes that the the future is online, and most realize that the byline has become the brand and that writers with followings will be a crucial part of the rescue of the bottom line.

So what does the Minneapolis Star Tribune do?

I kid you not: They kill Lileks' column and send him to report news. Visit www.lileks.com for details.


Fred, get on the phone to Haliburton HQ, Media Division. I'm sure they could pay him to write for us here out of their coffee fund.
Posted by:Steve

#13  As myself and other Netters had argued times before, iff the Left = LeftSocialism can't rule the world and post-9-11 future OWG, they'll take everybody wid them to hell. Its not for the Failed and Failing to reform or share or change, even for its own benefit or advantage its for the Good and Successful to concede = surrender.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-05-07 23:24  

#12  well someone worth a S*** needs to snatch him up and quick.
Posted by: newc   2007-05-07 23:11  

#11  It's time for Lileks to to bring back Screedblog . Man, he wrote some righteous stuff back then.
Posted by: mrp   2007-05-07 18:17  

#10  I enjoy the Bleat. Lileks is great in that vehicle, and also in his Hewitt interviews.

That said, IMO the Quirk sucked.
Posted by: KBK   2007-05-07 17:41  

#9  Well, as long as the Treasury of Regretable Food is okay, and the Gobbler Tour of course, I'm fine.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-05-07 17:35  

#8  "Not out the door yet, perhaps, but definitely being handed his hat."
Posted by: mojo   2007-05-07 17:33  

#7  Mike: here is a list of Paul Greenberg essays.

They're not the same but enjoyable nonetheless.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg1.asp
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-05-07 16:37  

#6  Mike: here is a list of Paul Greenberg essays.

They're not the same but enjoyable nonetheless.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg1.asp
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-05-07 16:36  

#5  They couldn't resist cutting the last thread that kept the business above water, could they?
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-05-07 15:11  

#4  James Lileks is the best English-language writer of short feature essays and op-eds active in the world today. Period.* The Strib is shooting itself in the foot (and probably has the chutzpah to put in for a Purple Heart the moment the cordite smell dissipates). If I were a subscriber, I'd be cancelling this afternoon.

As it is, all my friends will likely be getting copies of Interior Desecrations next Christmas--ordered from Amazon via the link on the Daily Bleat page so Lileks gets a commission on top of his royalty.

I will also be lobbying the Wall Street Journal editorial page to pick him up. Please consider joining this effort.

*I yield to no man in my admiration for Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, Peggy Noonan, the Anchoress, Wretchard, and the many other fine writers whose works grace the Op-Ed page of the RDS&TP--but Lileks is the best of that very good lot.
Posted by: Mike   2007-05-07 14:29  

#3  Al Franken last seen doing the happy dance.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-05-07 14:23  

#2  Way to go, shitheads.
Posted by: Dave D.   2007-05-07 13:58  

#1  Democratic Farm Labor Party State. Nuf said.
Posted by: 3dc   2007-05-07 13:48  

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