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I tried to talk to Leon Wieseltier for this story: poynter.org/news/mediawire His response:

8:28 PM · Aug 11, 2015

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how is this not in your story?!

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yeah, I gotta ask the same thing, Ben.

@workinwithwords

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I think that nicely sums up the attitude of longtime

fans who know the pub they once loved is sadly no more.

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Nona Willis Aronowitz

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awwww that totally should have made it in!

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why isn’t that in your story? why isn’t it the lede?

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Live and learn! Next time.

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Then he must be missing all those "Republicans are evil, m'kay?" stories

is writing.

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Even Wieseltier quotes television these days.