http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/howellraines/ en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:52:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050109/posts FR does not allow this magazine to be excerpted. Conde Nast Portfolio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050109/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:52:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669798/posts Howell Raines might have viewed his meteoric fall from journalistic grace as a dead end, but he instead saw a new opportunity. The former New York Times executive editor, who resigned after the Jayson Blair scandal, talked about his new memoir at the Aspen Institute on Thursday. "The One That Got Away: A Memoir" is a tale of fishing, but an allegory for life. Raines strayed from the book to lament the direction journalism is headed in - a path he feels is too strongly dictated by consumerism. He also discussed what it means to be a writer and journalist,... The Aspen Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669798/posts#comment Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:42:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653789/posts The always modest, always charming Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, has a new autobiography out, “The One that Got Away,” a sequel to his 1993 memoir “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.” Dipping into his latest book on his love of fly fishing, we find Raines still rising to the conservative-bashing bait. On page 189, he lets fly with thoughts about liberal bugbear Fox News: “Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest... TimesWatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653789/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614733/posts Ex-New York Times Editor Writes On Getting Fired In Memoir POSTED: 7:21 pm EDT April 13, 2006 UPDATED: 7:49 pm EDT April 13, 2006 NEW YORK -- Howell Raines, the former executive editor of The New York Times, warns at the beginning of his new memoir that the book is about sport fishing and the "unpredictability of luck," not the episode that led to his firing: the Jayson Blair scandal. Blair was the young Times reporter revealed in 2003 to have fabricated or plagiarized parts of several articles. Raines lost his job over the incident, in part because the paper... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614733/posts#comment Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596951/posts NEW YORK The long-awaited memoir by Howell Raines, the former New York Times executive editor, will be published on May 9, according to an e-mail to E&P today by its publisher, Scribner's. It is called "The One That Got Away," which may be taken as a reference to Raines exiting the Times after the Jayson Blair scandal, but which actually (or also) concerns fishing. The cover, in fact, shows Raines in the water holding a whopper. His previous memoir was "Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis." Scribner's said review copies would be arriving in early April. It describes the book's... Editor & Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596951/posts#comment Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:37:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1557158/posts I was just wondering if any Freepers knew anything about Howell Raines son Ben? Are they cut from the same cloth journalistically speaking? Any info appreciated http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1557158/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:15:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542926/posts The Bush generations have enriched themselves while impoverishing the presidency.AT THIS point, the policy legacy of George Bush seems pretty well defined by three disparate disasters: Iraq in foreign affairs, Katrina in social welfare, corporate influence over tax, budget and regulatory decisions. As a short-term political consequence, we may avoid another dim-witted Bush in the White House. But what the Bush dynasty has done to presidential campaign science — the protocols by which Americans elect presidents in the modern era — amounts to a political legacy that can haunt the Republic for years to come. We are now enduring the... The Age http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542926/posts#comment Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:00:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467410/posts Richard Nixon once gave me a lesson in the politics of war. Howell Raines, then the Washington bureau chief for The Times, took some reporters to meet Mr. Nixon right before the 1992 New Hampshire primary. The deposed president had requested that Howell bring along only reporters who were too young to have covered Watergate, so we tried to express an excess of Juvenalia spirit. Before the first vote of '92 was cast, Mr. Nixon laid out, state by state, how Bill Clinton, who was not even a sure bet for the Democratic nomination at that point, was going to... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467410/posts#comment Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:11:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419119/posts -SNIP-What is presidential intelligence and how much does it really matter? We can all recite the lists of ostentatiously brilliant presidents who faltered (Wilson, Hoover, etc.) and apparent plodders who triumphed (Truman). When I was covering the Reagan White House in 1981, all his top aides were wholesaling Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous comment about Franklin Roosevelt's possessing "a second-rate intellect, but a first-rate temperament." In the end, Reagan confounded scholars, journalists and voters alike. In an obituary essay, his biographer Edmund Morris referred first to Reagan's "intelligence" and later to his "ignorance." To be fair, innate intelligence has to do... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419119/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343164/posts I've been doing this for a long time now. By "this" I of course mean eating while I type. But I also mean this Internet thing. This column in fact pre-dates NRO itself and NRO is now considered one of those ancient landmarks of the Internet, like some old city that has been razed and rebuilt so many times nobody remembers why certain streets have the names they do. I remember when the first blogs started to appear and I was not particularly bullish on their chances for success. Of course, I was wrong about a great deal and right... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343164/posts#comment Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:43:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271413/posts STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES(the self-anointed 'intelligentsia' and 'intelligence' are mutually exclusive constructs) by Mia T, 11.05.04 'I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot.'" John KerryNEWSWEEK ELECTION ISSUE: 'How He Did It' "Does anyone in America doubt that Kerry has a higher IQ than Bush? I'm sure the candidates' SATs and college transcripts would put Kerry far ahead." Howell Raines - Former Executive Editor of the New York Times "The 'Dumb' Factor"Washington Post, August 27, 2004 "Stupid is as stupid does." Forrest Gump LOWER IQ = SMARTER WAR?(AND WHY DOESN'T KERRY SIGN FORM 180, ANYWAY?) POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST... Newsweek, The New York Times, Forrest Gump http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271413/posts#comment Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:14:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200900/posts POCONO SUMMIT, Pa. -- It was here in the parking lot of Cramer's Home Center, less than seven miles from a NASCAR track, in a pivotal battleground state, on the back of a battered work van, that we saw the first one. "Somewhere in Texas," the bumper sticker said, "A Village Is Missing Its Idiot." The next showed up at the Home Depot on the back of an equally battered pickup driven by a tough-looking kid dressed for construction work. It said: "Bush," and then, "Like a Rock Only Dumber." Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200900/posts#comment Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:41:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163249/posts ELECTION 2004 Kerry likened to 'Lurch' by ex-N.Y. Times editor Howell Raines says 'pompous' John has 'Addams Family' face, no clear message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 2, 2004 2:55 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com John Kerry, left, likened to TV's Lurch While talk-show hosts across America have for some time likened presidential candidate John Kerry to television's comedic monsters Herman Munster of "The Munsters" and Lurch from the "Addams Family," the comparison is now being drawn by Howell Raines, the former editor of the New York Times. In a commentary published in today's Guardian newspaper in Britain, Raines writes: "The TV... Worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163249/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:31:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150902/posts Media Reality Check. "Liberal Media's Reagan-Bashing Record: While Reporters Now Praise Reagan's Humor & Optimism, They Disdained His Conservative Policies" Below is the text of a two-page Media Reality Check distributed by fax today, put together by the MRC's Rich Noyes,based on quotes gathered from the MRC archive by Jessica Anderson.This is only a small portion of the Reagan-bashing quotes we've gathered, so we will be distributing more in the future, but these are the best short ones which enabled us to squeeze as many as possible into a fax. We didn't want to go negative on the media before... MRC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150902/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jun 2004 05:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149852/posts E-mail to Candidate John F. Kerry #7 From James (Cooter) Thompson Re: Howlin' Dear Senator Kerry: The guys down to Daryl's Bait Shop have been urging me to write to you real quick to straighten you out on various matters pertaining to your campaign. I am happy to oblige. We are concerned that you been getting advice from so-called friends who ain't really friendly to you and have hidden reasons to pretend friendliness, you know, patting you on the back so they know where to stick the knife. We made it clear in our first e-mail to you a few... Trentino's Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149852/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147124/posts If you want to understand why the New York Times jumped the shark during Howell Raines's tenure as executive editor, a solid clue is provided by a startling opinion piece Raines penned this week for the British newspaper the Guardian. After accusing President Bush of representing "the conservative, greedy wing of the Privilege party," after noting that he "looks like Goofy when he smirks," after alleging without evidence that "George W got into the Air National Guard when others couldn't through his father's political pull … got into flight school ahead of others due to his father's political pull… was... TAS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147124/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:06:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146545/posts <p>This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows.</p> <p>While talk-show hosts across America have for some time likened presidential candidate John Kerry to television's comedic monsters Herman Munster and Lurch from the "Addams Family," the comparison is now being drawn by Howell Raines, the former editor of the New York Times.</p> World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146545/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:54:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145925/posts Must do better His poll ratings have slumped and each day brings more bad news from Iraq, but George Bush has one big advantage in the coming campaign: a ponderous, uncharismatic challenger with no clear message. In the first of a series of dispatches for G2 on the US election, former New York Times editor Howell Raines warns that John Kerry must find his voice or fade away Wednesday June 2, 2004 The Guardian A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail and for the clarity of his message:... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145925/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jun 2004 02:47:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145981/posts A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail and for the clarity of his message: "It's the economy, stupid." With John Kerry, the message so far seems to be: It's the war, sort of, and it's the economy, maybe. Even against a weakened George Bush, Kerry has to get better as a candidate. The president may be bruised, but anyone tempted to bet against him would be ignoring the Republican party's mastery of what the pundits call "hammer-and-chisel politics", in which an opponent's reputation is destroyed through relentless pounding... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145981/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jun 2004 05:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125244/posts Howell Raines, Executive Editor of the New York Times for 20 months until he was drowned in the wake of the Jayson Blair affair last June, has just published a long (21,000 words) account of his tenure there. It appears in the May issue of the print edition of Atlantic magazine. My Times is its name. It is Raines's torch song to his employer of twenty-five years: he loves her even though she done him wrong and tossed him out on his keister. It is Raines's thesis that it was his determination to shake up the Times, make it fit... The Conning Tower http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125244/posts#comment Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:06:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1105177/posts <p>Former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines has unleashed a blistering criticism of the paper where he worked for 25 years and of the onetime friend who ultimately fired him, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. "I felt on the day I became executive editor and on the day I drove away from West Forty-Third Street for the last time that the Times badly needs to raise the level of its journalism, and to do so quickly in order to survive and make the full transition to the digital age," Raines writes in the May issue of The Atlantic Monthly - his first public comments since the days following his ouster last year.</p> NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1105177/posts#comment Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:45:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104710/posts <p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly a year after losing his job as executive editor of The New York Times, Howell Raines is defending his efforts to shake up the newspaper's culture and criticizing the paper's review into its own practices, saying it represents "an institution in denial."</p> Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104710/posts#comment Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:56:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104246/posts Deposed New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, sidelined and mostly silent after his eviction last June from West 43rd Street, is throwing himself back into the action. On March 24, The Atlantic Monthly will begin allowing the press to get a preview look at the cover story of its May issue, a gargantuan piece by Mr. Raines pondering his former place of employment. The piece will check in at something greater than 20,000 words, according to The Atlantic. That’s some 2,500 words longer than Ken Auletta’s mammoth New Yorker profile of Raines. Or, by Atlantic standards, it means Raines... The New York Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104246/posts#comment Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021241/posts Receive FREE updates by email: | Before Jayson Blair: AIM and The New York Times By William AlfordNovember 12, 2003 Subsequent to the fallout over Jayson Blair's numerous instances of fraud, inaccuracy and plagiarism, senior staff at The N.Y. Times surely hoped that credibility doubts would end by throwing the 27-year-old journalist over the side in May. Questions nonetheless persisted over such practices as the widespread misuse of unnamed sources, attributing freelancers' work to staff reporters, and insufficient research and 'advocacy' journalism. On an early June "day that breaks my heart," publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. announced the 'resignations' of... Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021241/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:17:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1020933/posts Associated Press Story - Former New York Times executive Gerald Boyd, who resigned last June in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, is writing his memoirs. Currently untitled, the book will be published in 2005 by Amistad, an imprint of News Corp.'s HarperCollins that specializes in publications by black authors. "The Jayson Blair scandal will be covered, but it will be just a small part of the story," Boyd's representative, Robert Barnett, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney, said Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Blair resigned from the Times last spring after editors learned he had embellished and plagiarized parts... Star News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1020933/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:03:28 GMT