[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.

[John H K]

I wonder if they'll let Andrew Sullivan write for them again.....

[BCrago66]

Times stock - NYT - took a tumple this morning in time with the general trend of the Dow and Nasdaq.

It will be interesting to see if the resignations cause a bump. Here's the 20-minutes delayed chart link:

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=nyt&sid=3393&freq=9&time=1dy&siteid=mktw

Looks like the start of a bump actually, at the moment the resignations became public.