Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times, is unexpectedly leaving the position and will be replaced by Dean Baquet, the managing editor of the newspaper, the company said Wednesday.
Baquet, 57, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a former editor of the Los Angeles Times, will become the first African-American executive editor at The New York Times.
“It is an honor to be asked to lead the only newsroom in the country that is actually better than it was a generation ago,” he said, “one that approaches the world with wonder and ambition every day.”
Read the full story at New York Times.
The below article shows why partnerships between ISP’s and government can’t be trusted with respect to representing our online interests especially when it comes to net neutrality issues and these FCC “Fast Lane” Reforms.
National Security
Nothing to See here is the motto for the NYT and the Obama administration.
U.S. revealed secret legal basis for NSA program to Sprint, declassified files show.
“The real story here is the almost complete failure of the telecoms to protect their subscribers’ interests,” said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, whose organization has filed a lawsuit contesting the program’s constitutionality and legality.”
http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-revealed-secret-legal-basis-for-nsa-program-to-sprint-documents-show/2014/05/14/f593612a-ce28-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
This is the reason we cannot allow ISP’s to work with government (FCC) agencies to create so called “fast lanes” where online information gets put into an active and complicit discrimination workspace/data space.
And interesting side note: Who is now going to make all the editing decisions at the NYT newspaper now that Jill Abramson has fallen over the glass cliff after breaking through the glass ceiling. Dean Baquet. In 2006, ABC News reported that Baquet killed a story about NSA wiretaps of Americans.
Obviously in this era of IRS…NSA and FEC and FCC intrusions into the lives of Americans Obama needs a go to man.
“Baquet confirmed to ABCNews.com he talked with Negroponte and Hayden but says “government pressure played no role in my decision not to run the story.” Baquet says he and managing editor Doug Frantz decided “we did not have a story, that we could not figure out what was going on” based on Klein’s highly technical documents. The reporter, Menn, declined to comment, but Baquet says he knows “Joe disagreed and was very disappointed.” Klein says he then took his AT&T documents to The New York Times, which published its exclusive account last April.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/03/whistleblower_h/
So the rub here is that the NYT ran with the story because they hated Bush and now Basquet has switched camps and is now going to censor anything against the Obama administration.
Could this be the typical narrative of illiberal lefties being partisan hacks while managing the decline of a newspaper and a nation. The NYT is the walking dead.
…about time,….now what good is this going to do for the African-American community???…kinda like having an African-American US president…huh???….
Simonzee1;
Really?…are you sure that you intended to make that comment for this article?…
I wondered at first as well, but buried down in the reply they include their concerns related to Dean Baquet.