Dead Man Editing Sooner or later, the beleaguered Howell Raines will take a bullet for his paper.

Slate ^ | 6/3/03 | Jack Shafer

[Howlin]

Thanks for posting this.

Tick tock, Howell.

[Cathryn Crawford]

"You guys have lost the confidence of much of the newsroom."


-You guys have lost the confidence of much of the world.

[DPB101]

the right wing, which lusts to destroy the paper's authority

Understatement of the year. "Lust" doesn't nearly describe it. Psychopathic stalking comes closer. I can't sign on without immediately doing a google news search on "Howell Raines" or "Duranty".

[Congressman Billybob]

Both of your statements are correct. The sea change here, however, is that the rank and file folks in the Times newsroom have developed the same sort of distrust for Raines that the outside world has long held. In wisdom like that are the seeds of open rebellion.

Make a mental picture of the ego of Howell Raines being pulled off its homemade pedestal and toppling into Times Square. That is the end game. The only question is, how mush self-abuse (deliberate pun) will the staff of the Times engage in, before that watershed moment is reached. Stay tuned.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on UPI and FR, and due to be in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Sunday, "Surviving in the Smokies."

[Cathryn Crawford]

I always stay tuned. Watching a company or a country topple from the inside is a better lesson in social behaviour than any of my quasi-socialist professors could ever stuff down my throat.

[RobbyS]

Sorry, but the paper itself is wounded.

[risk]

When the Times overplayed the Wen Ho Lee espionage story in 1999...

I'm not convinced that it was overplayed. Is anyone else convinced that he was innocent?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

In truth though it's not Raines but Pinch the Socialist who is actually holed the "raines" of the NYT. Raines will take the fall but Pinch is the one that's the lead commie.

[DPB101]

That is the fun part. Firing Raines won't fix the problem...lol

[leadhead]

All your news fits are belong to us.

[des]

Move along...

[Dane]

In truth though it's not Raines but Pinch the Socialist who is actually holed the "raines" of the NYT. Raines will take the fall but Pinch is the one that's the lead commie

Isn't Pinch the guy who brought out a puppet of a moose at the NYT organizational meeting over the Blair fiasco.

JMO, but it seems that Pinch and Raines are missing quite a few marbles inside their heads.

[backhoe]

WEB RESULTS by    (Showing Results 1 - 10 of 981)

1. Wen Ho Lee To Stay In Jail [Free Republic]
... of breaching security at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wen Ho Lee will remain in jail awaiting trial on charges he ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38bc601c1cf5.htm - June 22, 2002 - 10 KB

2. FEDERAL COURT ORDERS TRULOCK CASE AGAINST WEN HO LEE TO PROCEED [Free...
... victory by turning back an attempt by suspected spy Wen Ho Lee to have a lawsuit dismissed, which alleges that Lees ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8d70b40973.htm - December 21, 2002 - 38 KB

3. WEN HO LEE: VICTIM OR SPY?
... The Wen Ho Lee case stands out as a signal failure, one that has its roots in the complicated relationship between China ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/661095/posts - April 16, 2003 - 40 KB

4. Wen Ho Lee Wiretap Request Rejected by J.D.
Topic: White Water Wen Ho Lee Wiretap Request Rejected by J.D. An editorial in the March 30 Investor's Business Daily disclosed this fascinating tidbit of information: "From 1993 to 1997, federal officials requested 2 686 wiretaps.
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3702718c5152.htm - September 26, 2002 - 10 KB

5. U.S. Says Suspect Put Data on Bombs in Unsecure Files -- China Spy...
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www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3726c1952c14.htm - June 19, 2002 - 35 KB

6. Wen Ho Lee Can Be Released $1mil-Hearing Tues. 4 Conditions-Judge...
... Mexico, Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee can be released on $1 million bail while awaiting ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a657e85b76.htm - August 25, 2002 - 64 KB

7. Not so fast, Wen Ho Lee /Trulock: He deserved to be on suspect list ...
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www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39c0849f7f62.htm - June 25, 2002 - 30 KB

8. Wen Ho Lee: Another Rosenberg? [Free Republic]
... paints a bleaker future for our nation. Dr. Wen Ho Lee is the 60-year old Los Alamos nuclear scientist suspected ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a5466e5265.htm - February 13, 2003 - 29 KB

9. Wen Ho Lee's little lie
... Phillip Gold's otherwise useful review of Wen Ho Lee's memoir, "My Country vs. Me " perpetuates one of the ugliest myths ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675104/posts - March 31, 2003 - 16 KB

10. USE OF RACE CARD RESULTS IN THE RELEASE OF WEN HO LEE [Free Republic]
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www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39bfe1e11625.htm - January 21, 2003 - 20 KB

[McGavin999]

So they'll fire Raines and Pinch will continue to destroy a grand old newspaper. If I were a stockholder, I'd do something about Pinch.

[risk]

Thanks for those FR Inktomi results on Wen Ho Lee. How did you acquire them and put them? I went to www.inktomi.com and tried site:freerepublic.com but only got inktomi.com results.

In any case, it does look like Wen Ho Lee is as guilty as sin. Like the Rosenbergs, he probably figures that he was doing his duty to humanity. This multipolarity concept is a nightmare, however.

[Liz]

.....every newspaper has a star system, but Times staffers began to complain not everybody on Raines' list had gotten there by merit. .....

Not everybody got there on merit?

Well, I'm shocked, Shocked, to hear that (/end of Claude Rains impersonation.)

Knee-jerk liberals took the world's best meritocracy system and cannibalized it, putting it through the political correctness meatgrinder. The lib cannibals effectively silenced free speech and all reasonable arguments against their PC atrocities by employing the club of hate crime laws (which penalize only conservatives).

PC and hate crimes laws have outlived their usefulness. They are the Prohibition of the era. Prohibtion was necessarily repealed b/c it caused social chaos and a crime wave. We have yet to tally the crimes caused by PC atrocities and hate crimes laws, but it is huge.

The Times debacle epitomizes the devastation wrought upon America due to hate crimes laws and PC.

The fact is astute conservatives have always seen right through these self-serving liberal phonies and their arrogant use of PC and hate crimes laws to stifle criticism.

[GOPJ]

Hmmmm...

Wherever Raines actually ran the show‚the editorial page or the Washington bureau‚his managerial scale was small. Either by design or accident, he never established much in the way of political capital or a Times constituency--outside of Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.--before becoming editor.

[GOPJ]

Hmmmm...

Wherever Raines actually ran the show‚the editorial page or the Washington bureau‚his managerial scale was small. Either by design or accident, he never established much in the way of political capital or a Times constituency--outside of Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.--before becoming editor.

[GOPJ]

We don't "lust to destroy" their paper. We lust to have an honest paper. We lust to be included. We lust for a paper that goes-beyond pushing elitist dogma at the expense of truth.

How painful would it be to have diversity of ideas rather than just diversity of bedroom sex acts and diversity of skin pigmentation? Is it really too much to put diversity of ideas in the mix?

Self serving tripe:

pricked by a thousand lances--from the right wing, which lusts to destroy the paper's authority; from his staff, which owes him no favors; from the competition, for the obvious reasons . . .