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April 28, 2004
Mike Kinsley at the L.A. Times
I've learned never to be surprised at where journalist Mike Kinsley ends up, but him as the editorial page director at the L.A. Times is a little baffling, nearly as puzzling as his Crossfire departure for Microsoft's Slate adventure.
You can bet he'll bring in his bevy of Slate writers, which will be good and bad. They are generally excellent prose stylists -- "good writers", in other words -- but there is also a Kinsley-esque fondness for preciousness over precision.
Consider, for example, this Kinsley column. It is infuriatingly intricate, like a series of magic tricks in the form of a column. Except ... it is a shaggy dog story, with Kinsley not even believing his own point. Is the wildly talented Kinsley stretching so far for challenges in column-writing that he has to write left-handed for his ideological adversaries?
Here is hoping that a return to daily journalism causes Kinsley to get his feet back on the ground.
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