Yes, we recognize the ploy, do we not? It’s NYT man defecting to Huffington Post, where he can let his great thoughts all hang out:
[Peter] Goodman, who spent a decade at The Washington Post before his three years at the Times, says he will still rely on facts and not engage in “ranting.” And while he was happy at the newspaper, he says, he found he was engaged in “almost a process of laundering my own views, through the tried-and-true technique of dinging someone at some think tank to say what you want to tell the reader.”
Carefully chosen facts, at that. But that’s what you do: find an approved think-tanker or academic and launder your views, which nonetheless get out there, if under the guise of objectivity. The games newsies play!
Blithe Spirit 