Tom Friedman Can’t Count
The Times is going back behind a firewall. Which means we won’t get to laugh at Tom Friedman’s bizarre method of counting:
“As we got into it, it was clear to me I was getting cut off from a lot of my readers in India and China where 50 dollars per year would be equal to a quarter of college tuition,” Friedman recently told me by phone. “What was coming to me anecdotally from my travels was the five worst words that as a columnist you ever want to hear: ‘I used to read you before you went behind the wall.’”
Five words?
