Over at the New York Times, William Safire has retired, and people are speculating about whether the paper will replace him with another conservative, or whether David Brooks constitutes a sufficient dosage.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal op-ed roster recently lost its one token liberal voice when Al Hunt decided to leave the paper. Hunt was never a terribly exciting writer, but at least he exposed the Journal’s readership to a glimmer of light from outside its own serenely hermetic universe. Would the Journal keep any room on its opinion pages — otherwise filled with the usual motley gang of social neanderthals, rad-lib[ertarians] and Bush sycophants — for a dissenting voice?
Apparently not. Today the paper told its readers that Hunt’s old Thursday slot was going to be filled by a rotating gang of commentary writers presenting outside-the-Beltway perspectives.
Look, I’m all for getting out of the Beltway. But getting out of your own partisan wagon-circle is also healthy. Doesn’t the Journal have room for a single dissenter? Or is that whole concept just so, like, pre-9/11 that the Journal doesn’t even think it’s worth addressing?
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