NY Times says Howell Raines resigns as executive editor

[RandDisciple]

Just reported by Bloomberg News

[Helms]

Timesink, martin_fierro, etal.

Thanks for ramroding this treachery to its rightful conclusion.

[Dolphy]

Justice. No, Howell, Blair did not make you a victim of your own good diversity intentions. He exposed you as an inept executive, unable to maintain the standards of your profession.

[alloysteel]

Call this "thinning the herd"....

[Leisler]

Hitler=Hillery.

[VRWC_minion]

If these guys resigned it makes one wonder how much stuff happened we don't know about.

[OldFriend]

The new person in charge is going to have to send out a letter similar to the LA Times letter.......demanding that the liberal spin has got to stop on the news pages.

Unless and until that change is made the Times will remain the Slimes.....

[Mannaggia l'America]

NY Times says Howard Raines resigns as executive editor

NY Times also announces that Raines as accepted a position as press secretary for Hillary Clinton's future presidential campaign. </kidding>

[Mo1]

Oh yeah, expect to see them running for the microphones, howling with rage over poor Howell's unwarranted demise at the hands of Murdoch, Limbaugh and the rest of the attack dogs in the right-wing media. The left's meltdown continues ...

Count on it .. it's the VRWC's fault again

[altura]

that's a neat link! thanx

[Liz]

Ding dong the wicked witch is dead..........

And when are Pinch and Boyd going? And The Dowder?

Oh heck, just close the entire dumb liberal paper down.

[glock rocks]

but your repeat yourself

[CatoRenasci]

Hitler's book buzz??

[Amore]

Wow, just got my breaking news alert from MSNBC.
Yipppeeeee!

[jackbill]

Two down, ONE to go (and he OWNS the damn paper)!

He will probably also go - depending on what the Board of Directors say.

Before Sulzberger leaves I hope he dumps Dowd and Krugman

[_Jim]

Can you PLEASE correct the title to say 'Howell' instead of Howard?

[jayef]

NO this is wrong!

[MEG33]

Managerial style is being blamed by the Observer.He lost control of the place.

[Helms]

UP ON DRUDGE

[Courier]

"The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast,

The slow one now will later be fast

As the present now will later be past.

The order is rapidly fading

And the first one now will be later the last.

For the TIMES they are a-changing."

[Cicero]

The minimum they need to do now is to ease Pich upstairs to some kind of figurehead position, get rid of Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman, and bring in someone who is worthy of trust.

Bringing back A. M. Rosenthal, who was fired when he disagreed with the new management's shennanigans, would be a great choice, but I'm not sure if either Rosenthal or the Times's board could swallow the implications of that.

As for Bob Herbert, I'm afraid they're stuck with him forever. The man is a light-weight idiot, but he's a relatively harmless idiot. He's their present-day Anthony Lewis. Nobody actually reads him.

Finally, they need to stop rolling Frank Rich out of the closet where they threw him after he proved serially incompetent as their drama critic, film critic, and op ed writer.