Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (CJR Daily Intellectual Garbage Pick-Up Edition)

Just FYI, Paul Krugman does do a sources-and-methods email for his column to the NYT copy editors. For example:

From: Paul Krugman xxxx
Date: Sep 7, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Column
To: xxxx

Hi xxxx

On cell. Fact-check:

Economy is poor: http://pollingreport.com/consumer2.htm

Most people worse off: small gain since 1970s: Median household income in 2005 dollars: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/h06ar.html

Wages and inflation: http://www.prospect.org/deanbaker/2006/09/david_brooks_swings_and_misses.html

Household income of college graduates: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/h13.html

95th, top 1, top .01: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/TabFig2004prel.xls, Table A4

Tax rates for the wealthy: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/piketty-saezNBER06taxprog.pdf , p. 51