By: E&P Staff In a brief, unconfirmed report last night, The Huffington Post said it had learned that, "in a move bound to create controversy," The New York Times will soon announce that conservative writer and editor William Kristol will become a weekly columnist next year.
The Time has no comment and no other evidence of this move has surfaced so far.
Kristol, editor of The Weeky Standard and a Fox News analyst, recently lost his column at Time magazine. The Times has been missing a regular second conservative voice on the op-ed page since the exit of libertarian-leaning John Tierney.
Criticism of the possible move has already surfaced across the liberal blogosphere, with suggestions that this would be a new low for the Times -- hiring as one of its prime voices the well-connected pundit who was probably most influential of any writer in promoting the invasion of Iraq.
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