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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004

By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 26--The New York Times greeted former executive editor Howell Raines' scorching critique of its staff and news product with conspicuous silence -- a story not worthy of coverage.

Though The Times recently reported on disgraced ex-reporter Jayson Blair's memoir, and also reviewed the book, Wednesday's release of Raines' 23-page piece in The Atlantic Monthly got no mention yesterday.

Privately, however, staffers reacted with shock, fury and fascination that their former leader went on at such self-justifying length to paint so many of them as slackers and to hold himself up as a singular agent for desperately needed change.

One characterized...

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