Posted on 09/13/2005 5:49:41 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Former political commentator and columnist Michael Kinsley has resigned as editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times after 15 months at the paper.
Andres Martinez, hired by Kinsley last September from The New York Times to be editorial page editor, will take on a broader role overseeing the Times' opinion pages, publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson announced Tuesday.
Kinsley, 54, said in an interview with The New York Times in July that his arrangement to commute to his job from his home in Seattle had become a problem and that he was in discussions to change his role at the paper. At the time, Kinsley said he anticipated writing a column for the paper and consulting on Internet strategies.
Johnson's announcement said that while he spoke with Kinsley about other roles, "I concluded that it was best to make a clean break and I wish him well."
A message seeking comment from Kinsley was not returned.
Kinsley was hired by Times editor John S. Carroll, who stepped down from his post in July, one month after Johnson became publisher. Carroll was replaced by Dean Baquet. As part of the management transition, Johnson also gained authority over the editorial and opinion pages.
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Just how does a hard lefty justify the waste of fuel used to commute from Seattle to LA?
Talk about faint praise...
Most curious. Very curious. Sounds like.. the job wasn't quite the fit. Maybe Susan Estritch is throwing tony HellA parties and elbowing her way in?
He, like H. Ross Perot, never blinks.
Creepy guy.
No doubt the Parkinson's is slowing him down now. The farewell note above sounds more than a little bitter, and he doesn't mention his illness, as if it's too touchy a subject to bring up.
No kidding. Who could have guessed. /sarcasm
Creepy guy.
Not blinking and lack of facial expression are symptoms of Parkinson's.
I didn't know that. In Perot's case, it was mentioned during the 92 GOP debates. It had to be around the same time when I noticed the Kinsley "stare." Maybe the early "Crossfire" programs?
Yes, he does try to "construct" his column more than say, E. J. Dionne, but he often enough lapses into appeals to authority and thinly disguised ad hominems. He has also been much more shrill in his cable appearances (particularly since the Parkinson's overtook him). I have no use for him.
They're just rearranging the deck chairs...
Yep, file under WHO CARES
I agree, I actually have some respect for Kinsley. He's a liberal, to be sure. But I think he cringes at what orthodoxy liberalism has morphed into. Strictly anti-American contrarianism is what liberalism has become.
I thought maybe he got a visit from the PC police after he criticized CNN.
Trust me. Michael Kinsley is just another "nobody" in any American town. He is so 1990's.
Regards,
TS
au contraire! Kinsley is probably too conservative for the LA slimes.
I agree with you, but in DC he can still get invited to parties. In LA he can't.
You're right. But at the parties he gets invited to in DC the table talk is still about how Gore is the rightfully elected President.
Regards,
TS
I suppose it's possible that even then it was a symptom of the early onset of Parkinson's -- I'm no medical expert -- but certainly he's looked like he looks for far longer than public knowledge of his Parkinson's diagnosis, which only happened several years ago.
One of the worst things about Parkinson's is that it can affect your balance, and people can fall just by taking a step backward.
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