NY Times says Howell Raines resigns as executive editor

[RandDisciple]

Just reported by Bloomberg News

[Political Junkie Too]

But I want to know whether "Pinch" Sulazberger's stuffed moose is also out. If the moose is still around, I fear for the future journalistic standards of the Times.

We must find Moose and Squirrel!

-PJ

[hellinahandcart]

WOW!
I feel good
I knew that I would, now
I feel good
I knew that I would, now
So good
So good
I got you!

[MEG33]

Ignore..figured out partial birth abortion ban passing in the house!

[MEG33]

It's so fine.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Joseph Lelyveld

Joseph Lelyveld is a former correspondent and editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White. (May 2003)

June 12, 2003: 'THE CLINTON WARS': A CORRECTION
May 29, 2003: In Clinton's Court
The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal
January 16, 2003: Rudy Rules!
Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani, with Ken Kurson
The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice by Bernard B. Kerik
November 7, 2002: In Guantánamo
December 20, 2001: Another Country
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
Bibliography* Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (1985)

New York Review of Books - May 29, 2003
Review - In Clinton's Court
By Joseph Lelyveld

The Clinton Wars
by Sidney Blumenthal
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 822 pp., $30.00

In the Reagan years Sidney Blumenthal made his mark as a bright campaign reporter and intrepid explorer of spreading conservative and neoconservative networks in think tanks and on Capitol Hill. After seeing Michael Dukakis battered into oblivion in 1988, he wrote a book decrying the viciousness and vacuousness of the American way of choosing a president. It was at odds, he felt, with the issues facing the country after the cold war. What was needed, according to Blumenthal's prescription, was an injection of the intellectual energy neocons were displaying on the "progressive" side: "the invention of a political language and program" for what he portrayed as a new age. All along, he had been scouting for a leader fluent in such a language. "I wondered when a Democrat might emerge for whom modern politics was second nature," he writes, setting the stage for his narrative of the roller-coaster ride the country and he himself experienced after his wish was fulfilled. "I was waiting for the new." Read More...

And don't miss his own corrections he wrote in to the editor! -- Correction by Joseph Lelyveld

[theriotcat]

Also "culling of the clowns"

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Who says schadenfreude is a sin?!!? Especially in this context!

O Freunde,nicht diese Tone!
Sondern lasst uns
angenehmere anstimmen.
und schadenfreudenvollere.

Schaden-Freude!
Schadenfreude, Gotterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische,dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zuber binden wieder
was die Mode streng geteilt,
alle Menschen werden Bruder
wo dein sanfter Flugel weilt
Deine Zuber binden wieder
was die Mode streng geteilt,
alle Menschen werden Bruder
wo dein sanfter Flugel weilt!

[AnnaZ]

I am really trying not to gloat here.

No. Really. Please do. Gloats all around. A round of gloats on the house. Gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat.

 

 

[HamiltonJay]

This guy should have been CANNED a long time ago.. just proves the NYT board of directors is just as incompetent as this doofus.

Why anyone would have even though to try to save this guys job is beyond me. He clearly has demonstrated he is not competent at his job.

[HamiltonJay]

The mere attempt to save him showed that politics drives the NYTs not business.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL!

That faint humming sound you hear is Herr Schiller spinning at about 2700 rpm . . .

[Carolinamom]

Your fiction has such verisimilitude! LOL

[denlittle]

Miss Marple that was absolutely great!

[Helms]

Ah shucks but alot of the Revolution began here.You and Timesink are likely part of the Vast Right White Wing Conspiracy and I would allways be on the lookout for the likes of Al Franken and other goons. Seriously, this was fun.

By the way, Alan Dershowitz is back and I expect that they are beginning to gear up for 04. Hopefully the Implosion will continue.

[BlessedBeGod]

So how is it that the Times can fire one black guy...

They didn't fire Blair. They allowed him to resign, too.

[Green Knight]

I agree. Howell Raines may indeed be gone (And I'd like to know what other titles, if any, he had before I jump for joy at his resignation), but chances are someone just like him will quickly fill the job. Roger Ailes need not apply.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Before Sulzberger leaves I hope he dumps Dowd and Krugman

What about Bob Herbert? Can't be racist you know? In fact, affirmative action would demand that Herbert be dumped first followed by the female. Hmmm, would that be Krugman or Dowd?? Heh-heh.

[bert]

...Raines, Boyd, Martha Stewart and the PBA ban all in the same week ??......

Plus Genine Godaffalo today also.

Patience definitely has rewards.

[rwfromkansas]

Blair was a HS grad only?

What the heck?

I have been wanting a summer job at the local newspaper here and am a college sophomore. I wrote some stories in HS that were pretty significant, dealing with national events etc. I wrote one story about the teachers at impasse over contract one year and had people come up to me many times saying the coverage was better than the local newspaper. People even read my article at the board meeting. But unfortunately, the local paper requires people with experience at professional papers. Now, I am friends and neighbors with the publisher, so who knows, but I am not trying for this year anyway since I am recovering from surgery and won't be able to work till early July or so.

This is a small town. Now something is seriously wrong if the NYTimes will take somebody off the freaking street. That is seriously messed up......

[leprechaun9]

How about some suggestions for replacements? Of course all candidates must support the anti United States policies of the owners! Let's start with

Rev. Jessie Jackson for Raines
Rev. Al Sharpton for Boyd!