Living In The Shadow Of Friedman, MoDo, etc.

Washington Monthly takes a look at what we all know: That NYT columnist Bob Herbert just isn’t that popular. Still, they argue, he’s actually quite correct on most issues.

But the numbers don’t lie:

    The numbers are on my side. Take a look in LexisNexis and see how often various New York Times columnists have been mentioned (not syndicated) in other papers this year. Thomas Friedman gets more than 3,000 mentions, and David Brooks gets 2,650. Maureen Dowd gets 1,615; Paul Krugman, 1,179; Nicholas Kristof, 805.

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