Another New York Times lie

Remember when New York Times publisher Arthur (“Pinch”) Sulzberger declared that even if his executive editor Howell Raines submitted his resignation, he would not accept it?

And remember when, subsequent to this “I-will-not-accept-his-resignation” statement, Raines did resign – and it was immediately accepted? And remember when the New York Times claimed that Raines had made the decision that Pinch Sulzberger said he would not accept but did?

Well, on PBS’ “Charlie Rose Show,” Raines disclosed: “Arthur asked me to resign.”

That means that he was fired, by this publisher, who announced he would not accept Raines’ resignation even if it were submitted, and subsequently demanded the very resignation he announced he would never accept!

Is this the person to whom all the Sulzberger family majority shareholders should allow to go on publishing the now alleged “All The News That’s Fit To Print” the also alleged “Newspaper of Record”?

The New York Times, upon which so much of television depends to tell them what is newsworthy, needs a news publisher, as well as the new executive editor, Bill Keller.

Does anybody in the United States believe Pinch Sulzberger’s claim: “I am accepting Howell Raines’ resignation with great sadness” – when so recently he announced he would not accept Raines’ resignation even if it were submitted – which he proceeded to do after it was submitted – at his command?

What the Sulzberger family ought to do is to farm out Pinch to one of the Times’ company’s TV stations. Then bring back Times legendary editor Abe Rosenthal, who was fired – for reasons which Publisher Pinch refused to disclose when asked at a shareholder meeting (“That’s a question on personnel,” said Pinch).

Reportedly, Abe was fired because he agreed with JFK associate Arthur Schlesinger that the use of the word “gay” to describe homosexuality “is literary piracy.”