Wilfrid Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Sorry: gay. I always get those confused. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaliesinNYC Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Frank Bruni, a bad newspaper columnist who is nevertheless employed as a columnist by America's most prominent newspaper, is obligated to write two columns per week. He has approximately zero good ideas per week. This is what causes things like Sunday's column to happen. Ouch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidNY Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Gawker is always ripping on Frank Bruno. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oakapple Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Gawker exaggerates for effect, but I do believe he is a mediocre op-ed columnist. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 There aren't too many great ones. Paul Krugman comes to mind - he's terrific. So many of the others are much worse than Bruni. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mitchells Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Friedman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 He drives me nuts. And I'm still waiting for him to apologize for telling us that it was a good idea to invade Iraq. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Been reading the Times for many years; hardly ever look at the Op-Ed columns. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stone Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Anyone need more Bruni? Gawker doesn't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidNY Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Gawker posts articles practically weekly making fun of Frank Bruni's column. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Reminds me (yet again) of Charles Shaar Murray's monumental review of the band Yes's first, self-titled album. No. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 The NY Times used to include their own TV Guide with the Sunday paper. They listed the shows and movies with a short blurb summarizing the plot. Some were pretty funny. "From Hell It Came" - Back send it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 OK. It's kind of late to pile onto Bruni, but this is SO fucking typical. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/opinion/noma-closing-fine-dining-redzepi.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Guest Essays A lot of us were eating live shrimp sashimi when Bruni was just a (distinguished) political reporter in Rome. If he didn't know about that, fine: he was a political reporter. But how he was appointed one of the most powerful food writers on Earth remains a mystery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 The Times's disrespect of food culture remains notable. I will continue to argue that the new loosening of the Restaurant Review column's author's brief is a belated corrective to this horrible insult. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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