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Kristof: I Cost More, But I'm a Specialist

What is our news industry were like our health care system?

Nocholas Kristof
New York Times
February 20,2010

First, enjoy this column! We Americans have the greatest news care system in the world, and we in journalism are proud of the cutting-edge punditry that we provide.

Columnists in other countries simply scribble illegibly in notebooks, but here in the United States we administer CAT scans to interviewees, just to rule out the chance that our subject is dead. Expensive, yes - but we Americans must never settle for second-best...

 

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