Why Maureen Dowd Is Not a Good Columnist

Yesterday, in the biggest daily edition of the most influential newspaper in America, highly-paid and closely watched New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd decided to weigh in on Chris Dodd. Would she use Dodd’s hypocrisy as an opportunity to excoriate him? Would she, like Greenwald, point out the larger, revolting meaning of the revolving door between Congress and K Street? Or would she take an opposite tack, perhaps by teasing out an unseen thread in this web of connections in the corporate-political-cultural-entertainment-propaganda complex? [Gawker]