Leftist Professor Eric Alterman is angry:
Jeff Jacoby is a right-wing columnist whose opinions regularly appear in The Boston Globe. Like the work of The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin and the Los Angeles Times’s Jonah Goldberg, his columns give every indication that he was an affirmative-action hire, one of myriad attempts to satisfy the constant whining about alleged liberal bias in the mainstream media—“working the refs,” in professional parlance. In recent years, editors have been hiring more and more such pundits merely to fill a quota of “conservatives,” despite an obvious deficit of talent with regard to thinking, writing, or reporting. You can't say Eric Alterman doesn't know anything about affirmative action and special privileges . Working at tax subsidized institutions gives one a true perspective on inequality and the rent-seeking lifestyle.
Ordinarily, these second-stringers might aspire to become editor of the conservatives’ stalwart opinion magazine, National Review.
