I just wrote Mike Littwin a thank-you e-mail for being such a reliable source of amazement and inspiration for so many years. I mean, how lucky was Denver to have a writer of his caliber for so long at a daily newspaper?
What he wrote about didn’t matter. That’s why my Republican mother-in-law, who doesn’t read my blog, kept telling me how much she loved him, even though she hates Obama so much she can barely contain herself once she gets going.
I hope Littwin somehow lands somewhere else in town, but meanwhile, without cheapening the loss of Littwin and others at the Post, you have to wonder about the op-ed page at The Denver Post now.
Littwin and Vince Carroll balanced each other out on the page, as former Post Editorial Page Editor Dan Haley told me last year when I pointed out, with careful bean counting, that The Post op-ed page was more balanced with Harsanyi gone.
Haley told me at the time:
Locally, as of next week, we will have two main op-ed columnists (Carroll/Littwin) who will write 12 columns a month from the right and left. That’s balance.
I emailed The Post’s Editorial Page Editor Curtis Hubbard this morning, and after expressing my sadness about the layoffs and telling him I didn’t want to cheapen Littwin by looking ahead while Littwin’s chair on the editorial board is still warm, I asked Hubbard how he’ll balance the commentary page now that Littwin’s columns, blogs, and tweets are gone?
He replied:
We’ve still got a lot to sort through here, but providing a wide variety of voices and viewpoints remains a priority or the op-ed page.
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Thanks for consistently staying on top of the news, Jason.
Haley’s comments look especially clownish today.
He’s been a source of quiet inspiration to so many of us. He will be missed.
Not in expressing views, but following up on political commentary wherever it may appear or disappear. (Was that a sentence?) Probably not. We don’t have grammar police here or I would have been gone long ago.
What I mean is the “beat” you have chosen needs to be covered and thank you for taking it on.
As has the Post itself. Perhaps it should just close.
Yet Rosen gets to remain and recycle his columns from the last 20 years. We are witnessing the death of journalism.
Thanks for your work Jason.
Actually, theres not
at the Post.