Time For Sulzberger to Go - Newspaper Daze

The Conning Tower ^ | June 9, 2003 | Trentino

[Davis]

It's unlikely that the account in the NYTimes of the resignation of Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd will win a Pulitzer. It's overlong, tendentious, flat, delicate where it might have been bold, not sufficiently analytical, and it totally omits a number of important facts.

The author of this account is Jacques Steinberg, the Times's media editor who had earlier demonstrated pluck, ingenuity, and a stoic public countenance in the teeth of absurdity: although he was barred as a member of the press from attending the staff meeting held three weeks ago to quell the Times's newsroom rebellion, he managed to cover it by interviewing Times staffers who were present. He took no notice then of the absurdity of his position nor of the foolishness of management's decision to declare the meeting closed when they knew it couldn't keep it closed.

Steinberg's report of the awesome aftermath of Jayson's Blair's misdeeds fails to mention that Blair is black and was hired to satisfy the Times's noble obligation for racial preference, diversity. There's no mention in Steinberg's piece that Blair was hired and promoted-protected by Raines and Boyd and Prince Sulzberger--despite Blair's gross and obvious unfitness for the job, indeed for any job. Steinberg doesn't mention "diversity" at all, a stunning and telling omission. It's clear, isn't it, that Steinberg is bowing to what is now the official line: that there is no causal connection between the Times's racial preference program and l'affaire Jayson Blair--and this, quite simply, is untrue...MORE

[Liz]

Is Pinch toast? More than anybody, the genetically-flawed idiot child has brought derision onto the venerable paper. The little Prince genuflects before the NY Times Journalistic Credo with its core political correctness and contempt for truth and justice. The Credo is the American Dream reduced to a nightmare:

1. Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity.

2. Traditional gender roles are artificial but feminism and homosexuality are government-protected lifestyles.

3. Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem no matter the cost.

4. The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment; The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution;

5. Standardized IQ tests are racist; racial quotas and affirmative action are not.

6. Conservatives are racists; everybody knows that black people can't make it on their own without big-buck government assistance programs and Big Media to proselytize the message 24/7 even if we have to make it up.