The New York Times has added Bill Kristol to its stable of columnists. From the announcement:
Mr. Kristol, 55, has been a fierce critic of The Times. In 2006, he said that the government should consider prosecuting The Times for disclosing a secret government program to track international banking transactions.In a 2003 column on the turmoil within The Times that led to the downfall of the top two editors, he wrote that it was not “a first-rate newspaper of record,” adding, “The Times is irredeemable.”
This effort by the Times -- whose circulation numbers have been steadily bleeding to death -- to try to show it is respectful of conservative critics will likely fall on deaf ears.
