One thing is clear: Jill Abramson is not the worst manager at the New York Times. Let the shell-shocked media editor David Carr put the whole thing in perspective: I have witnessed some fraught moments at the New York Times. Jayson Blair was a friend of mine. I watched Howell Raines fly into a mountain…
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Broads in the news: NYT’s Jill Abramson offers mouth to mouth to WP’s Katy Weymouth
As everyone in Washington, DC knows, the Washington Post is in free fall to the crapper, thanks to, well, thanks to a lot of things, but the gleaming, glistening cherry on top of this sundae o’ disaster is the stunning ethical incompetence of publisher Katy Weymouth and editorial page director Fred Hewitt, whose multitudinous shortcomings…
If I told you, I’d have to cancel your subscription
Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see. No, nothing at all. Let me see if I’ve got all my links straight here. Judicial Watch submitted a FOIA request to the CIA, and the results of that request are available here. Over at Politico, Dylan Byers digests the results here, learning that that New York…
Editorial standards at the New York Times: What has four legs and goes “Woof, Woof, Woof”?
Over at the New Yorker, Ken Auletta devotes what appears by my count to be about twenty column feet to the long, happy career of NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson. Somewhere around the twelve-foot mark Ken mentions that while Abramson was managing editor of the Times, she “began writing a popular online column for the…