Memo from the Dept. of ‘Gee, Stacy, Why
Don’t You Tell Us How You Really Feel?

by Robert Stacy McCain | July 28, 2009 11:36 am

David Brooks[1] isn’t really worth the time it takes to denounce him, so please excuse the redundancy[2]:

In an era when the newspaper industry is laying off newsroom personnel to the tune of a thousand people a month, David Brooks is paid a full-time salary by Sulzberger. In return for this salary — his compensation package is rumored to be in the neighborhood $300,000 annually — Brooks is required to produce only two 800-word columns per week.
Do the math, and this amounts to 104 columns per year, at nearly $3,000 per column, so that Brooks’ rate is somewhere around $3.50 a word — and yet he apparently cannot be bothered to do any actual reporting.
Byron York breaks news every time he files for the Washington Examiner, a tabloid that is distributed free on the streets of the nation’s capital. Yet that ungrateful wretch Brooks is indulged as he wastes 804 words — yes, I counted — doing philosophy, rather than journalism. To borrow a phrase from Hunter S. Thompson, it’s “enough to make a man wonder what newsprint is for.”
My grievance with Brooks is not merely because, as Sister Toldjah says, he’s a phony political chameleon. Politics aside, Brooks is a goddamned disgrace to the profession of journalism. . . .

Feel free to read the whole thing[3], if you’ve got nothing better to do today than to think up additional reasons to hate that vile scumbag.

Endnotes:
  1. David Brooks: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/opinion/28brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
  2. please excuse the redundancy: http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/07/every-day-i-check-blog-called.html
  3. Feel free to read the whole thing: http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/07/every-day-i-check-blog-called.html

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