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  • 'L.A. Times' Invites 'Whacking' by Critics

    02/15/2005 2:23:00 PM PST · by Drango · 18 replies · 868+ views
    NPR ^ | 2/13/05 | David Folkenflik
    NPR.org, February 13, 2005 · Do you like the Whack-a-Mole game from the old arcades? Would you really want to be the Mole? Michael Kinsley apparently would. He's the relatively new editorial and opinion page editor for the Los Angeles Times. And over the past several Sundays he's invited a series of critics of the Times to beat the paper up -- in the paper's own editorial pages. The first guest Kinsley landed for the guest column? Blogger Mickey Kaus, who writes a feature called "Kausfiles" for the online magazine Slate -- a skeptic so severely disposed against the L.A....