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A great commentary, I thought, from A Sellout’s Samizdat:

Here’s a novel thought - run a newspaper like a business and actually give customers what they want…

This story in the Times today cracks me up. This comes from the media’s biggest eat-your-vegetables paper, that delights in telling people what to think through its distorted NYC lens.

Maybe running a paper like a business feels dirty somehow to those deluded souls who still regard journalism as a noble profession. It’s hard to be noble when you’re starving.