Posted on 06/09/2003 1:59:19 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:14:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
June 9, 2003 -- Despite newsroom whispers to the contrary, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. says he was not pressured by his family to dump his two top editors in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Sulzberger Jr. - whose family has run the paper for more than a century - told Newsweek that executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd resigned Thursday on their own accord.
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Raines was trying to assert control.. admittedly very leftist control, and the news room revolted. They did not revolt against the leftist bias. They are all leftists.
What the staff revolted against was control. It is obvious in what Raines did and didn't do to try to contain control. He did not call a press conference to try to reestablish the integrity of the New York Times image. Among those important to the times, its readers and the tv media, there was no integrity problem. What Raines did was call a staff meeting to try to control the mutiny. Sultzberger met with the DC staff to do the same thing.
When both attempts to appease the staff failed, the owner fired the boss. Now the staff runs the paper. The mutiny has succeeded. But the history of successful mutinies is soon the mutineers will be fighting among themselves.
The trouble is not over at the Times. The trouble is just beginning.
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