| "The much-respected journalist" Mickey Kaus | Andrew Sullivan |
| Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 10:01 PM PT (and later) | Thursday, December 05, 2002, at 2:41:22 AM |
| The NYT's idea of damage control: Don't apologize -- slime your writers! ... It's a surefire morale booster! ... | I It's been a big week at the New York Times. My sources tell me morale is at or about bottom as Howell Raines continues his manic attempt to corral news stories and now columns to reflect a party line. |
| While kausfiles fiddles, Slate's Jack Shafer has completely taken over kf's traditional ecological niche, feasting on the steady diet of embarrassments thoughtfully provided by Howell Raines' New York Times. | Even a Raines defender, Jack Shafer, has given up, while Raines' critics, ahem, are feeling vindicated. |
| If Boyd's memo is an example of his idea of "logic," I really want to read the columns he killed because "the logic did not meet our standards." | [A] piece was turned down, according to Boyd, because its logic wasn't sound enough. I will resist the temptation to point out that they publish Maureen Dowd twice a week, but this line is just as dubious. |
| Aren't the in-house dissenters from your campaign against male-only clubs just like those Southern whites who made excuses for segregation? Or actually defended it? Yeah, that's just what they're like! | [re: A column that did run in the Times about Augusta] A column that analogizes the club to a Confederate Army Camp? |
| I agree with Shafer -- show us the columns! Let us judge if they're so badly reasoned and illogical. | Here's the only way in which the Times can now prove to their readers that their columnists actually are free to argue what they believe: run the two columns and prove me wrong. |
| Update: .... Andrew Sullivan has a sophisticated exegesis here | |
There were other similar bits, but we got tired of reading Kaus and Sullivan.
