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2014-01-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

NY Times journalist wants you to know he is dropping all barriers

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Posted by badanov 2014-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Why stop there, Niki?

Posted by KBK 2014-01-03 00:14|| 2014-01-03 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 No matter how he writes it, Nicholas D. Kristof or Nicholas Kristof or Nick Kristof = Shallow Buffoon

Posted by George Alowishus Hatrack III 2014-01-03 00:19|| 2014-01-03 00:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Jeesuz, what a pompous asshole...
I'll bet he got his ass kicked a lot growing up.

Posted by tu3031 2014-01-03 00:34|| 2014-01-03 00:34|| Front Page Top

#4 "a kind of journalism that is more casual, more informal, more personal, and a very formal byline seems as out of place as a three-piece suit in the newsroom".

I think perhaps this is what the Duck Dynasty patriarch was warning us against...being attacked by a piece of fruit.

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2014-01-03 06:25|| 2014-01-03 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Can I have a selfie or two with that ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-03 06:29|| 2014-01-03 06:29|| Front Page Top

#6 D. - stood for:
1) Democrat
s) Duh
3) Douchebag

Posted by Frank G 2014-01-03 07:43|| 2014-01-03 07:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey! He got paid for that schlock, didn't he? But if I were his supervisor, I'd tell him I wasn't going to pay for another one like it!

Posted by Bobby 2014-01-03 07:51|| 2014-01-03 07:51|| Front Page Top

#8 F you Dickless D. Pissedoff.

Why don't you drop the women's underware instead of the D?

Posted by Airandee 2014-01-03 08:06|| 2014-01-03 08:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Does talking about middle initials show my ass as big?

Posted by sw ks. volFF 2014-01-03 09:13|| 2014-01-03 09:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I doubt if it makes much difference, frankly Nick, the only truthful statement in the piece. I'd go with that line and skip the rest.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-03 09:46|| 2014-01-03 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I think that we're moving to a kind of journalism that is more casual, more informal, more personal

And much, much less professional.

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-03 10:50|| 2014-01-03 10:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Like all modern "journalists", still writing like he's hoping to gt that "A" from the lead socialist perfesser.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-01-03 13:41|| 2014-01-03 13:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Dropping all barriers? Ok, here's a story you can sink your teeth into:

Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the no-bid contract to build the disastrous Obamacare website. Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85, is senior vice president at Canadian company CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the so far costing $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov.

Townes-Whitley and his Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. Toni Townes, Pricenton '85, is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon , West Africa.

George Schindler, the president of the CGI Federal's Canadian parent CGI Group, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.

Sooooooo...........

Let's see if we can connect the dots here ...
1.) No American companies considered for building Obamacare's website;
2.) CGI Federal was chosen by God knows which criteria and hired;
3.) CGI Federal was given a NO BID contract worth $93 million;
4.) A top executive at CGI Federal was a Princeton classmate of Michelle Obama;
5.) Previous company's experience was building a gun registry for the Canadian government;
6.) CGI Group was fired by Canadian Government for overruns that cost Canada $100 million;
4.) CGI has continued its practice of overruns as the Obamacare enrollment website has gone from $98 million to costing U.S. tax payers $678 million, and it's still going up!

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-03 14:05|| 2014-01-03 14:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Don't forget - I believe several states have used CGI for their work and they has a long history of doing dogsh*t sh*tty work.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-01-03 14:24|| 2014-01-03 14:24|| Front Page Top

#15 CGI Federal was chosen by God knows which criteria and hired;

Townes-Whitley and his Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-03 14:31|| 2014-01-03 14:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Yo Nick,

No one cares.

Posted by Greang Bucket7278 2014-01-03 14:50|| 2014-01-03 14:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Here, get your arse to work and write about this:

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-03 15:30|| 2014-01-03 15:30|| Front Page Top

#18 Per the stoning picture...

I'm sure he'll write about how we shouldn't judge other cultures and other races (like Islam - yea I know Islam isn't a race...). And all cultures and races are equally valid. And didn't the Joooes use stoning a long time ago so they did it first!

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-01-03 16:19|| 2014-01-03 16:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Y'all need to give this boy some credit. For someone from his background, with his resume and spouse, to figure the whole new media thing out in only a decade and a half is extraordinary. The kid is crumbling the cookie and throwing away the mold. Tubing the Rubicon. Throwing out the old rusty battle-axes and decking the hall with flatscreens. Mortarboards for surfboards. Recasting type into fishing weights, by golly. Goldman Sachs boo! Bold new hacks yay! Civis-nuntius sum. Demotic moniker... check! Bunny slippers... check! Hipster trilby... check! All systems are go. The new journalistic order slouches over to Port Authority to bum cigarettes from regular folks. Kristof our savior is born!

Can't wait for his book raising serious questions about the 2008 campaign in, uh [fingers], 2027.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-01-03 16:52|| 2014-01-03 16:52|| Front Page Top

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