I guess they have decided that even having one liberal on the op-ed page once a week (there is obviously none on the opposite page) is too much for their non-thinking readership so I guess that my borderline take-don't take decision is going to get swayed over the line. Get rid of Lyons and keep Masterson or Gitz? I guess Gitz does it for free so he can claim to be "published" but there is no reason that the meandering thoughts of Masterson is worth even the amount of chicken litter I get by shredding the page.

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"No word yet if that could affect appearances by Bradley Gitz, Dana Kelley or Mike Masterson."

It is hard for me to believe that even Paul Greenberg or Walter Hussman would choose to save money by dropping their token liberal columnist while keeping all three of those purblind right-wingers!

If I could count on as good judgment pertaining to the stock market as I have had concerning publications, I could be rich! I dropped my subscription to the DoG about a year ago, and have subscribed to Salon for several years.

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Censorship at its best!!!!!

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Thank goodness.
DEM-GAZ will save all that money on the newsprint paper they wasted on his columns for all these years.

Most here worship SALON so read his drivvle there.

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I hate to see Mr. Lyons get the ax. And I was hoping they would jettison Gitz to make room for Johnny Ray.

But it's not my paper and they can do what they want.

On the other hand, how many conservative columnists does the Arkansas Times run?

Why do the heathen rage?

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I cannot speak for Gene Lyons but my guess is he will feel a little cleaner after he departs.

He appears to be getting much enlightenment and joy from raising cattle.
Salon is a better place for him.

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Lyons' column was a primer for conspiracy theorists everywhere.

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If Lyons had filed bankruptcy while preaching fiscal responsibility he would still have a job ala Gitz.

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elwoodie
Did he "feel dirty" when he cashed the checks the ADG gave him for 18 years?????

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“Lyons remains available at a number of syndicate locations, notably Salon”

LOL! Salon seems to be the last refuge for ex-newspaper kommie writers when they’re kicked out right before the ship they helped to sink goes down.

Pretty soon, even Salon’s going to be so bloated with these kicked-out kommies, that even paying them practically nothing Salon won’t be able to make enough money to stay afloat on the digital ocean.

Ironic isn’t it, about how capitalism keeps destroying the anti-capitalists based on simple ideas like free-enterprise, free-markets, competition, innovation and entrepreneurship. Guess that’s what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you.

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Funny how left wingers scream censorship all day long and in the same breath yell "hate speech" when the ideas being presented don't jive with their own.

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The AT trading Brummett for Lyons is like trading your Hyundai in on a Cadillac.

Coda, dropping a columnist is not "censorship." If you own a newspaper, you have every right to decide which columns you wish to pay for and run. Just like I have every right to decide not to read the piece of crap newspaper which is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Snapback's right.

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Yep, the last column I read without fail, although I do read Masterson every now and then, mostly just to see if he can still get my hackles up. (He hasn't been doing such a good job of it lately -- mostly ho hum, (or sometimes, HUH?).
Next thing on the chopping block, I'd guess will be Doonesbury.
Oh well, rather than yearly, I've been paying for three month subscriptions lately, trying to make up my mind if I really need the paper. One of the best reasons to keep it now? My vet recommends it as kitty litter for a sweet baby who has a foot problem.

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Lyons = Krugman with no nobel prize and nothing interesting to say.

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Remember, folks: DFTT.

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Thats because the right is filled with hate speech and the left is filled with compassionate and education.

Speaking of delusion, Paul Greenburg is to comprehension, as Bernie Golberg is to David Carradine.

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This is a good time for a lot of house cleaning. Let's return to the 1860s when every newspaper in the country labeled themselves a Republican or Democratic rag. I resent the space the NY Times gives to rightwingers. I don't like watching conservatives on the Daily Show.

Our childrens ain't learning. We've yet to convert or even mildly educate any AT blog troll. They can see the baby Jesus, but they can't see facts presented to them clearly. It's a waste of time. And it is a waste of time to have Lyons printed in the Democrat-Gazette. Brummett will learn this too, by Christmas. Save a tree....drop your subscription to the DG.

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good....Lyons can work for free...which is what he is worth

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“how many conservative columnists does the Arkansas Times run?”
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The interrogative is non sequitur.
In Bizarro World (Htrae), it is not enough that all hate.
The (Pulitzer) Prize is awarded for being the most hateful.


“I do not know which makes a man more conservative—
to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
John Maynard Keynes

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I miss the Gazette. And Bill.

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It was wholly a pleasure to read the update.

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>On the other hand, how many conservative columnists does the Arkansas Times run?

Post of the year. Nicely done, 24fps.

also, mfw: http://i56.tinypic.com/ncz4f9.jpg

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I remember about a year ago having a discussion with several regular contributors at this blog site, in which the quality of journalism of the Dem-Gaz was the central focus. I well remember two longtime contributors to the AR Times blog, who purport to be moderate-liberal types, but who hotly resented my statements that the Dem-Gaz is a rag that doesn't deserve serious consideration as an example of credible journalism.

Interesting that those two voices are now silent in the ongoing discussion of these matters. As if they needed real evidence, even a year ago, what kind of paper the Dem-Gaz is, while they heaped scorn on me for wasting keystrokes (as one of the two put it) on arguments about the paper's unrelentingly ghastly journalism and the harm this has done to our state . . . .

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If The Gabzette really needed to cut back they could save some big bucks by letting Greenberg (I won the Pulitzer) hit the streets. Or at least terminate their deal with the Koch brothers (ala Masterson- who BTW wrote his most asinine column of many this am).

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Since Salon has been mentioned here a few times, I have a question. I’ve been a Salon subscriber since 2006, but I’m considering dropping my subscription when it comes due next month because I am growing less and less satisfied with the content. Any Salon subscribers out there feel the same way?

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Camille Paglia is the only reason to read Salon and she's on indefinite hiatus.

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The Progressive, The Nation, and American Prospect are mainstays in my mailbox.

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>>Camille Paglia

She's the nutcake who stated that 9/11 happened because of Clinton/Monica affair and Clinton's refusal to step down. Clinton's refusal to step down set up 9/11.

Then she voted for Ralph Nader in 2000.

In 1993 Paglia tried her hand at astrology writing and revealed to readers, via her ignorance, she didn't even know what the elliptic was. But astrology was "in" at the time so she did a futile attempt to latch onto another zeitgeist.

She picked up the torch for Obama in 2008 because Hillary was so "distasteful."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/…

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I read Salon in spite of Paglia, not because of. She's a raving lunatic that should never see print in respectable circles.

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eL, Molly Ivins, after reading "Sexual Personae", which she had been assigned to review, said, "Christ, someone get this woman a valium!"

I know someone who was a student in one of her classes at Bennington. She got pissed at him for something and threw a chair at him during class. She is so yesterday and managed to stretch out her 15 minutes of fame by being provocative---there's really not much substance there. I don't think serious social researchers take her seriously. She's probably on hiatus from Salon for throwing a chair at someone.

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Thanks, Pavel, for your DFTT reminder.

I've subscribed to Salon since subscriptions were first sold and for me it's still some of the best writing and coverage on the web.

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Funny how the Camille Paglia haters are the same ones who think Paul Krugman is lucid and insightful. Paglia is a brilliant and engaging academic who the Left hates for the same sort of reason they hate Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas.

Blacks and post-grad Lib arts types aren't allowed to bite the hand that feeds them. They are traitors to team Identity Politics.

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I don't hate Paglia, Lee, I just think she is over-rated I read her book 20 years ago or whenever it came out. I thought there was a crock of shit in every paragraph.

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I just took the time to find Molly's review of Paglia's book---took about 45 seconds---aren't computers wonderful?

http://web.archive.org/web/20080306071615/…

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Thanks for the feedback, Norma. I value your opinion. I occasionally like to check with others to see if my thinking is way off. Maybe it is this time.

As for Camille Paglia, I had forgotten that she was ever a Salon contributor. I certainly didn’t miss her when Salon dropped her.

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I just don't understand how a fair-minded, educated, and engaged person cannot APPRECIATE Camille Pagila. Her type of universal scholarship is a lost art and her writing style (diction, sentence construction, sense of play) is magnificent. That she has such a mastery of Critical Theory, Literature, philosophy, and art and isn't beholden to liberal orthodoxy is really remarkable.

For someone who has so many scared cows, ideologically and politically, I'm sure she can be quite frustrating. And to be sure there is quite a bit to criticize and question. But I will forgive anything and anyone that is smart, funny, and can so fluently & effortlessly transcend multiple academic diciplines the way she does.

Sorry you don't much care for her, outliar.

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Editor Paul Greenberg, famous for his literary sensitivity, might want to remind Masterson that comparing political opponents to parasitic bugs has kind of gone out of fashion after 1945. Although I have the hunch that he doesn't really mind fascist rhetoric being employed on his editorial page.

http://arkansasmediawatch.wordpress.com/20…

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About Camille Paglia (Camp, to insiders), I'd forgotten she was once a Salon regular.

Always an interesting and provocative writer / thinker, her relevance seems to have sharply diminished over the past three years, for whatever reasons. Or maybe her outrage, which used to be organic, finally grew too forced. Nothing lasts forever.

Except diamonds.

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John Brummett thinks it was "intolerant" from NPR to take a certain rightwing commentator off the air. But of course the same standards don't apply to avowedly right-wing media like the ADG - when they take a librl off the page, it's just a business decision.

http://arkansasnews.com/2010/10/26/its-tru…

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I used to read Gene Lyons in The Palm Beach Post here in Florida. Since he is far and away the best liberal writer today - even beats Maureen Dowd IMHO - I was always amazed that a paper in a redneck wasteland such as Arkansas would publish his intelligent, insightful work. Arkansas strated its decline when Dale Bumpers retired from the Senate. With Mr. Lyons' firing, the state has nothing left to be proud of.

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What's happening with the Stephens Media acquisition of Meredith Oakley, cut loose from the Dem-Gaz sometime last year? Hiding somewhere behind the scene due to some kind of non-compete severance package?

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