I don’t have any first-hand familiarity with the Sulzberger family, but I have to wonder whether Pinch is so golden with all his relations that they will back him no matter what. There have been a whole series of crises, he has again and again proven his incompetence, yet they continue to back him.
Don’t they have any cousins or nephews or even nieces to put forward to take his place? Don’t they have any reliable friends whom they could put in as caretakers?
It’s not just his leftist politics. The Times has always been leftist. It’s his incompetence. They pay the highest salaries in the business, yet their editorial writers and reporters are childishly bad. Maureen Dowd alone would be enough to make any decent company ashamed of employing her, but they have dozens of others who are nearly as dreadful.
It extends to the arts, book reviews, science, religion, and every other area of the paper. It’s almost all self-conceited drivel, badly written, barely literate.
I suppose we should be hoping they will keep Pinch on, since he is ensuring the death of a newspaper that is probably unsalvageable at this point.
“I have to wonder whether Pinch is so golden”
Funny choice of words...Pinch has a cousin, Michael Golden, whose name has been suggested on numerous occasions as the business-headed person to reverse the Times’s flow toward craven ignominy and insolvency.
Maybe this will help it happen, but I’m not holding my breath.