The NYT Names Joseph Lelyveld Interim Executive Editor (Raines, Boyd go out in PC blaze of glory)

NYT Press release ^ | 6/5/03 | NY TIMES

[Liz]

Still PC to the core. Liberals can't tell the truth even when it stares them in the face.

[curmudgeonII]

It'll make no difference who's the titular head of The New York Times. The same left-wing garbage will still be spewed out.

[Bedford Forrest]

Still PC to the core. Liberals can't tell the truth even when it stares them in the face.

Yes indeed, but how sweet it is to see the heavy left swine hoist on their own "diversity" petard.

[Liz]

Schadenfreud.......

[smith288]

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There, much better

[Tacis]

It is OUTRAGEOUS that the replacement isn't a black guy!! The NYT is racist!!! What could be more important than diversity at the top?

[Liz]

Well why aren't you on the darn phone with the Revs Jesse and Al? Huh?

[Liz]

Much, much better.....LOL.

[_Jim]

WHY no reach for 'new talent'/a new face at the top - by picking somebody from another field or perhaps another paper?

[Uncle Hal]

Does anyone know anything about Lelyveld? Where does he stand on the issues? I assume he is another flaming liberal.

[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!

[mcenedo]

I thought Pinch said he wouldn't accept Howell's resignation.

What about Dowd, Herbert, Krugman and the rest of the liars? When will they resign?

I nominate Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams to be the permanent replacement.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Lilyveld is a moderate leftist, somewhat stodgy, but a winner of several Pulitzers in his own right. He's certainly no Freeper, but he's not a gibbering Stalinist enemy of the truth. Of course, that now makes him unique at the NYT.

[LS]

Right. This is akin to changing coaches at the Arizona Cardinals or managers at the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

[_Jim]

-The New York Times announced today that Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The Times, has been named interim executive editor,

"Looking forward to the past ..."

Reminds me of that old Y2K catoon that comically posed the Y2K 'bug' as "the gateway to the 1900's" ...

[DPB101]

The press release from the Times left out the most important part. How will this affect blacks, gays, women and other minorities?

[Bedford Forrest]

Schadenfreude.......BIGTIME!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Latest update:

_______________________________________________

Reuters
UPDATE - Top NY Times editors resign amid scandal
Thursday June 5, 4:01 pm ET
By Ellen Wulfhorst

(Adds details, background throughout)

NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - The two top New York Times (NYSE:NYT - News) editors resigned on Thursday amid an unrelenting scandal sparked by a reporter who plagiarized and fabricated dozens of stories at the nation's most influential newspaper.

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Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd emerged from a morning meeting and told stunned staff in the newsroom they were quitting, Times reporters said.

The plagiarism scandal sparked by former reporter Jayson Blair gripped the Times in recent weeks but was also a catalyst for a look at ethics and standards in the media.

The departures came despite earlier comments by Publisher and The New York Times Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. that he stood by his team and would not accept their resignations.

"Given the events of the last month, however, Howell and Gerald concluded that it was best for The Times that they step down," said Sulzberger, whose family has controlled the Times for 107 years.

Since his 2001 appointment by Sulzberger, Raines helped spur Times staff to eight Pulitzer Prizes. But the latest controversy exposed sagging morale and brewing dissatisfaction with his management style, which many saw as hierarchical, distant and based on making stars out of selected reporters.

"I think it's time that this era came to an end. People are shaken up, but we are optimistic," said reporter Deborah Sontag, who said she has had trouble getting sources to cooperate since the Blair scandal broke.

As they spoke to staff, Raines looked pained, while Boyd was teary-eyed and lost his train of thought, reporters said.

Blair, 27, faked dozens of stories during nearly four years at the Times and resigned in May. Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rick Bragg quit amid charges of dishonest reporting.

An unprecedented mea culpa published on May 11 said Blair pretended to travel when he was home, made up colorful details about places he had not been and lifted vast chunks of work.

Raines and Boyd were blamed for overlooking warnings, like Metropolitan Editor Jonathan Landman's e-mail: "We have to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now."

They were accused of promoting the black reporter to help diversify the newsroom. At a recent staff meeting Raines said: "You have a right to ask if I, as a white man from Alabama, with those convictions, gave him one chance too many. When I look into my heart for the truth of that, the answer is yes."

Blair, now hawking a book, told CNN he was sorry and wished, "the rolling of heads had stopped with mine."

Staffers spoke openly with reporters outside the newspaper's office of their general dissatisfaction and their hopes that Raines' departure would end the cronyism and bring the Times a new executive editor with a willingness to listen to them.

Joseph Lelyveld will return as interim executive editor. Lelyveld, 66, under whose reign the paper won 12 Pulitzer Prizes, retired two years ago when Raines was promoted.

Raines, 60, joined the Times in 1978. He won a Pulitzer in 1992 for feature writing. Boyd, 52, named managing editor in 2001, also won a Pulitzer. He was the paper's most senior ever black editor and seen as a possible contender for the top job.

New York magazine media critic Michael Wolff said the resignations would not quell the controversy and that the focus will now shift to Sulzberger. "It's all about the survival of the publisher at this point."

The Blair scandal has helped erode public confidence in journalism since its heyday covering the Vietnam war and Watergate. Only 36 percent of people trust the media compared with 54 percent in 1989, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll said.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

New York magazine media critic Michael Wolff said the resignations would not quell the controversy and that the focus will now shift to Sulzberger. "It's all about the survival of the publisher at this point."

The Blair scandal has helped erode public confidence in journalism since its heyday covering the Vietnam war and Watergate. Only 36 percent of people trust the media compared with 54 percent in 1989, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll said.

How about that!

[small voice in the wilderness]

You're right. When is dowd going to peck out her letter of resignation and proudly stand for what she professes. That is ONE letter that would be worthy of killing a tree over. C'mon liberal moralists, put your resignations where your hypocritically virtuous displays of political correctness and vile contempt for anything conservative mouths are. I dare you to actually stand for those things you have strived unceasingly to jam down our throats all these many years.