{"id":562,"date":"2005-10-01T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/10\/01\/a-wolfie-in-sheeps-clothing\/"},"modified":"2005-10-01T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T21:15:21","slug":"a-wolfie-in-sheeps-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/10\/01\/a-wolfie-in-sheeps-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wolfie in Sheep&#8217;s Clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7153'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s starting to look like the Nwe York Times hit on a genius solution to boost sagging circulation &#8211; raise the price and piss people off. Appearantly operating on the &#8220;Forbidden Fruit&#8221; theory of economic motivation, by removing Dowd, Krugman and Kristoff from free circulation, they have made them hipper, infused them with the allure of the larcenous. A look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a> top ten searches today include &#8220;Maureen Dowd&#8221;, &#8220;A Wolfie&#8230;&#8221;, Paul Krugman, John Tierney and Bob Herbert. The best watermellon in the world is stolen watermellon.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s the theory. Reading these jokers on the sly the past few days we have not noticed a significant upgrade in content.  Perhaps the Times should have waited until they had a bunch of particularly brilliant columns in the can, before putting up the toll booth, just to convince people it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, columnists are supposed to be topical so canned stuff probably wouldn&#8217;t have worked.  You can&#8217;t expect them to produce the good stuff on demand like trained animals. But they could have done somethng with performance-enhancing drugs. Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to today&#8217;s forbidden fruit, <a href=\"http:\/\/nastyletterstocrookedpoliticians.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/wolfie-in-sheeps-clothing-by-maureen.html\">A Wolfie in Sheeps Clothing<\/a>by Mme Dowd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s starting to look like the Nwe York Times hit on a genius solution to boost sagging circulation &#8211; raise the price and piss people off. Appearantly operating on the &#8220;Forbidden Fruit&#8221; theory of economic motivation, by removing Dowd, Krugman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/10\/01\/a-wolfie-in-sheeps-clothing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}