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11/10/09
It’s not surprising that someone with financial expertise, industry connections, and the ability to write would come at a higher price than, say, a style columnist, a journalist with a regional specialty, or even a good editor. #andrewrosssorkin
11/10/09
(Gasparino's book is vastly better anyhow) #andrewrosssorkin
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He's got a "standing offer" from Graydon Carter. Surely other opportunities - speaking, going out on his own, etc. - are in abeyance thanks to the Times' money. Leveraging his market to achieve a high salary is the definition of capitalism. It's not that capitalism does or doesn't work; it's that, sometimes, management overpays or makes bad risk judgements. If so, the Times pays the price with failure! #andrewrosssorkin
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11/12/09
I don't mean to be smarmy about this subject, and I'm very far from a raging capitalist (education and health care should absolutely not be privatized- externalities and whatnot), but to claim without qualification that socialism appears to work just fine is a massive stretch.
(And Gawker's new notification system is great! I feel much less like I'm farting in the wind now. Instead of no chance that anyone will read a late reply, there's a slim chance that one person will. Huzzah!) #andrewrosssorkin
11/13/09
And yes, the notification system will enable us to keep this up for years - perhaps decades!
Seriously, interesting discussion. #andrewrosssorkin
11/14/09
Capitalism does a great job creating wealth. Current political infrastructures do a crappy job of redistributing that wealth equitably and, in my opinion, humanely. The American public hears something like "redistribution" and freak out, thinking it means socialism. It doesn't. The laissez-faire crowd hear it and cry that it will kill incentives and decrease production. It won't, at least not in the long run. I think there's a happy-medium somewhere that will allow the wealth-creating power of capitalism to run smoothly along a far more equitable distribution method, but it's a question of personal, collective and political will. And that's what drives me to drink. #andrewrosssorkin
11/09/09
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Or so I've been told, anyway. #andrewrosssorkin
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Mr. Cook has this thing about "worth" - if the collective firm isn't making money, the individual employee shouldn't be. If the firm is somehow backed by taxpayers, large salaries for executives are unjustifiable. He's a populist who doesn't seem to believe that anyone could be worth all that much more than HE is, or his fellow members of the so-called creative underclass. Certainly this best-selling author generating loads of publicity can't be worth a sizable salary to a newspaper if said newspaper is dying! #andrewrosssorkin
11/10/09
To be fair, Cook also has a thing about Sorkin taking unjustified credit. #andrewrosssorkin
11/09/09
Just asking...
Now, back to finishing this here blog post.
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That said, Sorkin adds little value to the NYT -- he's the Jim Cramer of print. If someone is willing to pay him more, he should go and cash that check before it isn't offered again. #andrewrosssorkin
09/02/09
Yeah, I'm jest jealous.
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09/02/09
You should check out his old band, Bitch Magnet -- for real.
David Grubbs + Sooyoung Park were also in the band so they were kind of a post Squirrel Bait almost-super-group.
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03/25/09
Abu Dhabi is very expensive and the move-in costs are very high -- you have to pay a year's rent (and we're talking NYC prices) just to move into a place, though it's easy to borrow the money. And Anu Dhabi is boring and the entertainment options are few and pricey.
I will say that as America sinks into its own sense of self-entitlement (it now owes as much as it produces, and it still thinks of itself as "exceptional," in a good way) it's sad to see the crass sterotypes that American liberals and conservatives are so good at farting out of their mouths.
Here's a clue: Not everyone living between Morocco and Burma south of Russia and north of Kenya is a member of the Taleban, and the UAE has more expats living there than Arabs, and not all Arabs are misogynistic terrorists.