http://mondoweiss.net/2007/04/why_the_times_k.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Sun, 27 May 2012 20:37:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://mondoweiss.net/2007/04/why_the_times_k.html/comment-page-1#comment-72532 anonymous Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/04/24/why_the_times_k.html#comment-72532 <p>"The old gray elephant doesn't forget." I am trying to think of anyone still in power at the Times who was even there when Halberstam was. Abe Rosenthal had a long memory but now he is just a memory. Keller, Abramson, Geddes, Rick Berke, Jon Landman. They were all babies when Halberstam left the Times. I can't imagine them even thinking about his parting from the paper. <br /> Halberstam was hardly a harsh critic of the Times in recent years. He was certainly not seen as a prominent critic. I think the explanation for the lack of prominence of the obit as you see it is more about forgetting than remembering. Had the Times editors remembered Halberstam better, they would have covered the run up to the Iraq War quite differently. <br /> In your outsized thinking about the NYT, try not to forget that each day's paper is a product of a multitude of decisions made by lots of people trying to get home in time for dinner. </p> "The old gray elephant doesn't forget." I am trying to think of anyone still in power at the Times who was even there when Halberstam was. Abe Rosenthal had a long memory but now he is just a memory. Keller, Abramson, Geddes, Rick Berke, Jon Landman. They were all babies when Halberstam left the Times. I can't imagine them even thinking about his parting from the paper.
Halberstam was hardly a harsh critic of the Times in recent years. He was certainly not seen as a prominent critic. I think the explanation for the lack of prominence of the obit as you see it is more about forgetting than remembering. Had the Times editors remembered Halberstam better, they would have covered the run up to the Iraq War quite differently.
In your outsized thinking about the NYT, try not to forget that each day's paper is a product of a multitude of decisions made by lots of people trying to get home in time for dinner.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2007/04/why_the_times_k.html/comment-page-1#comment-72533 Phil Weiss Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/04/24/why_the_times_k.html#comment-72533 <p>Anonymous, you're smart, and sounds like you know what yu're talking about more than I do. But do you think the Halberstam obit wasn't sharply underplayed? </p> Anonymous, you're smart, and sounds like you know what yu're talking about more than I do. But do you think the Halberstam obit wasn't sharply underplayed?

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