{"id":191523,"date":"2009-08-07T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/07\/bueller-bueller\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:15:00","slug":"bueller-bueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/07\/bueller-bueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Bueller????  Bueller????*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, as Felix Salmon notes, with no small amount of exhultation, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2009\/08\/07\/ben-stein-finally-expelled-from-ny-times\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> has fired Ben Stein as a columnist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it was not his deliberate lies, nor his stupidity that got him, but rather the fact that he was cashing in on his <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Times<\/span> gig in a way that did not generate them money:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>NYT spokeswoman Catherine Mathis confirmed this, telling Gawker that \u201cBen Stein\u2019s fine work for us as a columnist for Sunday Business had to end, we told him, after we learned that he had become a commercial spokesman for FreeScore, a financial services company.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More&#8217;s the pity that he got the gig in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">A reference to what was John Hughs&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091042\/\">best movie<\/a>. The director and writer of teen angst flicks died yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, as Felix Salmon notes, with no small amount of exhultation, the New York Times has fired Ben Stein as a columnist. Of course, it was not his deliberate lies, nor his stupidity that got him, but rather the fact that he was cashing in on his Times gig in a way that did not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}