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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's fine, if you enjoy that sort of thing. I think a more interesting question was, why was the NYT so intent on publishing his crap? There are plenty of dishonest, lazy writers out there, many of them getting published. Then there are those like Taibbi who get their ideas out there on their sites. Almost all of them don't get space on the NYT op-ed page, and when they don't, you don't get up in arms defending their right to push their ideas, unedited, on that particular real estate.
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Because I think it’s quite useful to let people who say dumb things as Cotton did have those things criticized in a mainstream medium.
Cotton would just get atta boys on Brietbart or Fox. Here, he was savaged by those who thought his views dumb and repugnant.
I think less siloing is needed. Sunlight eradicates a lot of our tribalism.
ETA: I do not think Taibbi pushes dumb ideas. I think his personal website is one where he exercises his pen and plays with concepts. His RS articles are much tighter and often pull in bits of his earlier personal website work. Others have done something similar, using web material as a rough draft or to test popularity of a subject with the audience.
