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5 things I think I think about today’s St. Petersburg Times

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You don’t realize how lacking for original commentary the St. Petersburg Times is until Howard Troxler goes on vacation.  This is the Achilles Heal of the newspaper — the holes in its lineup of columnists.  Sue Carlton is the Columnist Who Isn’t There and Ernest Hooper is, like the dude in this spoof of the New York Times, just a Cool Black Guy. PolitiFact may wins awards, but columnists sell newspapers and there isn’t a metro columnist writing for the…

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5 things I think I think about today’s St. Petersburg Times

in Peter/The Bay and the 'Burg by

You don’t realize how lacking for original commentary the St. Petersburg Times is until Howard Troxler goes on vacation.  This is the Achilles Heal of the newspaper — the holes in its lineup of columnists.  Sue Carlton is the Columnist Who Isn’t There and Ernest Hooper is, like the dude in this spoof of The New York Times, just a Cool Black Guy. PolitiFact may wins awards, but columnists sell newspapers and there isn’t a metro columnist writing for the…

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Slate’s Movie Club

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Perhaps the compelling, erudite discussion I have heard recently was not at a New Year’s Eve cocktail party, rather it took place online in Slate’s Movie Club. For seven years, Slate’s film critic David Edelstein ,has asked three or four of the most respected film critics to engage in a running discussion on the year in cinema. Joining Edelstein are Scott Foundas, film editor and a critic for LA Weekly, Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader, and A.O.…

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