[MEG33]

Sob

[DPB101]

Howell Raines in his own words:

"I just like the tribal culture of a newsroom"

"Franklin D. Roosevelt had brought electric lights and the best crappie fishing in the world."

"The populist side of me is very much about my identification with the culture of a newsroom"

"Hunt big game, not rabbits."

"I always thought that if you covered politics twenty or thirty years you ought to learn something."

"I was reminded today of the words of Mississippi's greatest moral philosopher, Dizzy Dean, who said, 'It ain't braggin' if you really done it!' Ladies and gentlemen of the New York Times, you've really done it!"

"If I'm in a gunfight, I don't want to die with any bullets in my pistol. I want to shoot every one."

"I'm not rattled by the friction of the moment."

"The caricature of me that I see in some of these accounts is completely unrecognizable to me. And therefore not particularly disturbing."

Source:New Yorker

[KeyWest]

I love the 6/66 edition. The mark of the Beast. Perfect.

[sd-joe]

Totally missed in this rant is that Raines led the Times over the cliff of uncontrolled liberal bias.

[Just mythoughts]

"The Times' readers did suffer a monstrous deception at the hands of Mr. Blair...."

Clinton speak, and to think that raines has credibility because of "Pulitzer Prizes" is like saying that Hillary the smartest woman in the world, co-president and didn't have a clue about her perverted hubby.

They all hatched out of the same seed bed.

[aristeides]

Interesting how the editorial keeps talking about "the Sulzbergers."

[mewzilla]

But it does not follow that an editor of Mr. Raines’ superb talents....

Fine, then. You hire the guy.

[DakotaGator]

Well well well. Seems someone at the NY Observer doesn't like the concept of accountability.

Oh. Silly me. Accountability is only for we mere mortals, not the chosen "journalists"! </megasarcasm>