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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
      Replying to @DouthatNYT

      First of all, we do all suck. Granted.

      11 replies 26 retweets 88 likes
    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      Second of all, the author is totally right about how inhumanly impossible it is to generate genuinely original ideas on a twice-weekly pace.

      9 replies 3 retweets 23 likes
    3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      But as a mild counterpoint, here's something a *very* veteran columnist said to me when I was starting out.

      5 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      "It's a mistake," he said, "to think of your readers as all turning to you religiously twice a week, eager for *your* particular new idea."

      3 replies 4 retweets 27 likes
    5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      "You'll have readers like that, sure. Your fellow journalists, maybe some people in politics and government, some diehard fans."

      2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    6. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      "But you write for a newspaper. It's a public service, but also a disposable entertainment product. And most people who read it ..."

      4 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    7. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      "... do so haphazardly, intermittently, reading particular columns randomly rather than intentionally, barely noticing your byline."

      3 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    8. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      "So if you're afraid of repeating yourself -- well, you will. But many of your readers are only reading, say, one column in five."

      4 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
    9. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      "And that idea that you think is stale, if it's a *good* idea, might always be fresh to someone. So don't be ashamed of returning to it."

      6 replies 6 retweets 41 likes
    10. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 23 Jun 2017
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      I thought there was wisdom there. Self-justifying wisdom, to be sure. But it's made me feel a little better about sucking. /Finis

      25 replies 1 retweet 74 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jun 2017
      Replying to @DouthatNYT

      I think J.K. Galbraith's advice to W.F. Buckley was good: take a sabbatical from column writing every few few years & do a big serious book

      1:29 PM - 24 Jun 2017
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