The New York Times's travails in the reign of Raines: 'as the ship veered onto the rocks, those who voiced warnings were ignored, while the bosses told each other how smart they were.'.(Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media)(Book Review)

Nieman Reports, March, 2005 by Nyhan, David

Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media Seth Mnookin Random House. 352 Pages. $25.95. In reconstructing a train wreck, it helps mightily to interview the fellow at the throttle of the locomotive as well as the guy who owns the railroad. Seth Mnookin got nothing but some gingerly generalizations about business strategy from The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.

and a flat-out cold shoulder from Howell Raines, for 21 furious months the most influential newspaper editor in America. The chief custodians of our "All the News That's Fit to Print" newspaper, Raines and the three editors who preceded him in that exalted throne all chose not to talk to the former Newsweek media writer, Seth Mnookin,...

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