How low can NYT go?
When I was an idealistic 22-year-old at the New York Times, in 1987, the coolest people I encountered were Maureen Dowd (then a Washington reporter) and Frank Rich (then a drama critic).
The most repulsive people I encountered were Adam Clymer (actually, the second MOST repulsive person I've ever encountered in my whole life), Howell Raines, Judy Miller, and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Clymer is the guy that George W. Bush, talking to Dick Cheney in the 2000 campaign, referred by an open mike, as a "major league asshole" to which Cheney replied, "big time." (I wish these guys had been similarly insightful with Putin, Chalabi, and Malaki.)
Raines and Miller resigned in disgrace for gross incompetence, with Miller currently in court over her collaboration with Scooter Libby in exposing a CIA agent.
Arthur Jr. just pulled all NYT's assets out of Morgan Stanley because one of Morgan Stanley's analysts dared to exercise some honest reporting about how Arthur Jr. is managing The New York Times Company, a publicly-owned corporation. Luckily, while the $675 million withdrawn represents all the NYT's assets, it's just a drop in the bucket for Morgan Stanley.
Time was, the NYT was the institution with the strength and integrity to shrug off the black hearts who tried to punish it for honest reporting. Under Arthur Jr., the NYT is the black heart that Morgan Stanley is shrugging off.
The most repulsive people I encountered were Adam Clymer (actually, the second MOST repulsive person I've ever encountered in my whole life), Howell Raines, Judy Miller, and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Clymer is the guy that George W. Bush, talking to Dick Cheney in the 2000 campaign, referred by an open mike, as a "major league asshole" to which Cheney replied, "big time." (I wish these guys had been similarly insightful with Putin, Chalabi, and Malaki.)
Raines and Miller resigned in disgrace for gross incompetence, with Miller currently in court over her collaboration with Scooter Libby in exposing a CIA agent.
Arthur Jr. just pulled all NYT's assets out of Morgan Stanley because one of Morgan Stanley's analysts dared to exercise some honest reporting about how Arthur Jr. is managing The New York Times Company, a publicly-owned corporation. Luckily, while the $675 million withdrawn represents all the NYT's assets, it's just a drop in the bucket for Morgan Stanley.
Time was, the NYT was the institution with the strength and integrity to shrug off the black hearts who tried to punish it for honest reporting. Under Arthur Jr., the NYT is the black heart that Morgan Stanley is shrugging off.
posted by Rick and Gary at 8:00 PM
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