The New York Times To Consciously Uncouple From David Brooks

But they will continue to co-parent the Both Sides Do It monster they spawned.

From The Atlantic (with emphasis added):

The Atlantic hires David Brooks as a staff writer
New home for his writing, and to launch a video podcast

The Atlantic is announcing that David Brooks, who for years has contributed memorable Atlantic cover stories and essays on political and societal issues, is joining the magazine as a staff writer beginning next month. The Atlantic will be the home for all of David’s writing, and he will also host a new weekly video podcast that will launch later this spring. David worked as an opinion columnist at The New York Times for 22 years.

In a note to staff, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, writes: “David’s work––his columns, his stories for us, and his many books––have made him known and acclaimed around the world. He is, among other things, America’s best pop sociologist, someone with a reporter’s curiosity and a writer’s grace. He is an unparalleled diagnostician of the faults and weaknesses of governments, institutions, and social structures, as our readers know from such stories as...

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. 

I, for one, cannot wait for the avalanche of saccharine legacy media encomiums. 

It's rumored that David Broder himself will rise from the grave to give a toast at Brook's farewell gala.  

Then there's this:

Never doubt that there is a Club kids.

And never doubt that none of us will ever be members.

I Am The Liberal Media