KELLER at the NYT-----------Ugh

[UTUSN]

My impression of this person is based WHOLLY on ONE column of his: Back during Campaign 2000, he wrote that his brain told him that GORE was better qualified, more intelligent, better prepared---the works. But that KELLER had an epiphany when his 3 year old daughter started chanting, when GORE came on the t.v. screen, "GORE is a bore." This clinched it for him, he said. Like, 3 yr olds are not BORED by ANYTHING, but will say WHATEVER will trigger praise and approval from the persons important to them, and this was a PARROTING of what she heard around her not ORIGINAL with her. This link says KELLER is not "a doctrinaire Liberal." You know what that means.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56293-2003Jul14.html

[librechik]

1. Thanks UTUSN--I was wondering about that.

sigh

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. well

As long as his paper keeps Paul Krugman, Tom Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert and William Safire, I'll keep reading it.

I doubt very serioulsy that the NYT will be taking a hard-right turn, no matter who takes over as editor.

[RichM]

3. I have news for you - any paper that has Friedman & Safire as

columnists, & Berke, Judith Miller & David Sanger as reporters, already has taken a hard-right turn.

[ProudGerman]

4. Amazing, he openly admits that

He openly admits that what made him decide who to vote for was a stupid rhyme his 3 year old was merely parroting. That he voted against his better judgement because of the person in his life who has to be told NOT to eat out of the cat box repeated something she heard simply because it rhymed.

Acting like an idiot won't get you any points in my scorebook.

[UTUSN]

5. More Code: "Expand Its Base"

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http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-biz-keller0714,0,5896994.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

.... Some people who know Sulzberger and Keller remained skeptical the two can work together harmoniously.

Former Los Angeles Times editor Michael Parks said Sulzberger tapped Raines in 2001 because he promised to shake up the tradition-bound institution while Keller was seen as representing the status quo. "Arthur was very comfortable with Howell Raines. Has he now changed his point of view?" said Parks, who was a reporter in Moscow when Keller was there. "Bill is obviously auditioning for the job."

Sulzberger said Keller met the two criteria necessary to run the 1,200-person Times newsroom: to be "a superb journalist" and "a great manager."

Sulzberger also said Keller would continue to implement the paper's ongoing strategy to expand beyond its base in metropolitan New York to other parts of the country and the world, and onto the Internet and television. Sulzberger said, "Tactics change, people change, strategy doesn't change."

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