HuffPo's John Ridley Punches Pinch Sulzberger

Published: September 26, 2007, 4:51 pm

Tags: arthur sulzberger jr, john ridley, ny times, blogs

What is Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger's main qualification for being publisher of the New York Times? According to Huffington Post blogger, John Ridley, it is living through birth. Although generally liberal, Ridley sometimes refreshingly breaks from the leftwing party line as I have noted when he accused the Democrat presidential candidates of being cowardly for refusing to appear at debates sponsored by Fox News. Now Ridley's ire is directed against Pinch Sulzberger in his Huffington Post blog of yesterday, "How the New York Times Betrays Us." According to the Times own public editor, the MoveOn/Betray Us ad the Times ran on Monday, Sept. 10 has officially gone from being an ugly spectacle to a full on scandal of bad judgment, poor oversight and ideological favoritism. Over at Atlantic.com, Andrew Sullivan writes that if the Times wants to do something about the body shot its rep has taken, it needs to fire someone. Um, yes and no. The Times needs to fire someone,

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