NY Times Responds

> Dear RFN:
> I am an editor on the Culture Desk of The New York Times and your
> e-mail about Jacques Steinberg's story was forwarded to me. First, thank
> you for being a loyal reader. We greatly appreciate them. And thank you
> for your e-mail. You're quite right that Colbert said his father was a
> "turd miner.'' We checked the transcript, and at the end of the
> "interview,'' he also described himself as "the son of a turd farmer.'' It must be
> a hard life, akin to that of the Hungarian velcro farmers featured in Not
> The Wall Street Journal many years ago.
> -Ed Marks
> Culture Desk