What the Market Will Bear
So that New York Times article I discussed in my last post mentions as an aside that General Petraeus and Macaulay Dean Ann Kirschner spent the spring emailing each other about an oped they hoped to get published in the Times.
JK Trotter, the Gawker reporter, has now gotten dozens of pages of emails between these two, of which he estimates roughly half are devoted to this draft oped. He has just tweeted two different parts of this draft. It’s—how shall I put this?—a real meeting of the minds.
@CoreyRobin @slicksean small preview of Petraeus’s draft of the “op-ed” mentioned in the Times pic.twitter.com/NKylZfongX
— J.K. Trotter (@jktrotter) July 16, 2013
@CoreyRobin @slicksean pic.twitter.com/eBY0NJdSYv
— J.K. Trotter (@jktrotter) July 16, 2013
This is what we were about to pay $200,000 for. And what we’re already paying however-much-a-dean-makes $245,000 for. Damn, that would have been an expensive oped!