What people should be doing is canceling their NYT subscriptions.

I agree. But I cancelled mine when Krugman left them.

Why that didn't lead people to understand what the NYT really is now I'll never know.

IKR????

"I'm no longer free to write my opinions or use facts that are unpleasant for the regime" is one hell of an alarm that every current subscriber is ignoring.

Gosh, the times we live in. Sometimes I write something and then marvel at the fact that I’ve just composed *that* thought.

Yes but the rest was very polite and civil. At the time I thought that he framed it well, with hindsight I think he may have needed to be more blunt. But then I am far away, easy for me to say.

Personally I don't think Krugman soft-soaped his exit essay. He didn't use a lot of emotional language but he was very clear about what the NYT are doing to the news.

Well I only read it that day, maybe I should go back and review. But then it did lead me to drop the NYT that same day, which should have been a big deal but at the time I just felt like I’d drifted from the NYT, it no longer felt as vital as it once did.

Perhaps the result of exactly what drove Krugman away? Unreasonably constrained high quality journalists may not be able to deliver compelling content?