MIRROR, MIRROR….Ross Douthat writes about the problem of stale columnists who stay on the job year after year after year:
There are columnists who stay persistently interesting even after decades on the job, but they’re few and far between, and even the best of them might profit from five-year sabbaticals here and there. The rest should be…strictly term-limited, at five or ten or fifteen years. It would be good for us, the readers, and good for them as well.
But what about the beam in our own eye? Do bloggers get stale too? There’s a whole generation of high-traffic political bloggers who have recently passed the five-year mark and show no signs of quitting. Should we all be taking sabbaticals too?
