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Originally Posted by Half Smoke
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I'm pretty sure one of the reasons he stopped writing for the Wash. Post was that a few years ago the Post started allowing anybody to comment on their stories and the comments appeared below the story in their online edition.
the public being the public - there were quite a few idiots who made idiotic comments about him and his picks - and he didn't appreciate that at all - the fact that the Post allowed all of these comments to appear below his column
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That's unfortunate, but he had a good run and was born at the right time. The world has changed bigtime. Working for a newspaper these days must be similar to what is was like when I finally landed a job at Xerox in early 2000s. By that time every building was more than half empty. Now much like Kodak it's barely a name. A lot of people made a lot of good livings in the 60s and 70s, that'll never happen again. At this point even bookstores are on life support.