[Dont Mention the War]

A little blast from the past!

[Dont Mention the War]

Media Schadenfreude alert.

[martin_fierro]

Instead, "The One that Got Away" is a recounting of fishing adventures, childhood memories and ruminations on what it means to have the biggest fish you've ever caught get away from you.

Hmmm. Sounds like a real ... YAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNN ... page turner.

[speedy]

A liar writing about other liars. Think I'll pass.

[Pharmboy]

I can't WAIT not to read this...

[Cicero]

I wonder what he has to say about firing A. M. Rosenthal at the urging of Maureen Dowd, who had slept with him earlier?

A. M. Rosenthal was a liberal, but he was an honest and decent liberal, just about the last one left on the NYT's staff.

[Timeout]

I would have gone for an approach of layered complexity...

"Layered complexity"? Doncha just love it when libs talk that way? I think he wanted to say "nuance", but J. Effin Kerry ruined that word for these elitist snobs.

[RayChuang88]

Who wants to read something that we already knew nearly three years ago on various message threads on FR?

[bert]

Having got that out of his system, he will retreat to a University some where.

[saganite]

When I became interested in fly fishing I read Raines book about that subject. I didn't learn anything about fishing but I learned a hell of a lot about liberals and their hatred of Republicans.

[StAnDeliver]

"If I had been writing the story, I would have gone for an approach of layered complexity, placing our failure to catch Jayson into the context of the Times's long-standing editing and personnel practices," he wrote."

TOO precious for even Pinchloaf, Draines. That's why you're gone to lunch at the old fishing hole...

"Of one Times editor who criticized him in public but was friendly in private, Raines wrote, "What is it about this place that has given this good man the soul of a bushwhacker?"

Jill Abramson would laugh at you but she doesn't know how, Draines. Her face is frozen that way, don't you know...

[Doctor Raoul]

Howell Raines taught Jason Blair how to lie.

Turns out Blair became a "Diversity Fire".

[Savage Beast]

We make our luck, Howell.

[bray]

When does Ann's next book come out??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[MinuteGal]

"The paper said in an editor's note that it had been "taken in".

In the slimy parlance of the NYT, "editor's notes" is the camoflage term for "corrections". It's list of "editor's notes" is regularly buried on page 96 under Preparation H advertisements.

Leni

[GOPJ]

He also didn't dwell on his successes, including the seven Pulitzer prizes the Times won in 2001, his first year on the job.

Instead, "The One that Got Away" is a recounting of fishing adventures, childhood memories and ruminations on what it means to have the biggest fish you've ever caught get away from you.

Maybe, just maybe, the biggest fish that got away was the job at the Times?