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Thomas Friedman: Our Readers Are Idiots

Thomas Friedman's column today provides proof that the print media are spiraling towards irrelevance:

... this from a president who has so neutered the Environmental Protection
Agency that the head of the E.P.A. today seems to be in a
witness-protection program. I bet there aren’t 12 readers of this
newspaper who could tell you his name or identify him in a police lineup.
Regular TPM readers, of course, could both name and recognize Stephen "Stonewall" Johnson. Yet Friedman is convinced the esteemed readership of the Times would be unable to do so. I guess we're not the Times's target audience any more.


Comments (4)

The best part is that Friedman himself is the idiot-king! He's speaking to his citizenry.

Actually, aside from the dis of his audience, today's column was actually pretty good. He's right that the oil won't last forever, and a strong president would push for greater use of renewable energy sources.

You mean this guy that looks like a muppet? http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2005/03/04/image678078x.jpg

Yeah, him! So if you read the Times, Friedman thinks there's just 11 more people like you out there.

It's been a while since I've read the dead-tree edition, so I don't count myself, even though I'll occasionally read things on their web site.

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