"On the Media"
Sometimes deservedly so, says
Ken Auletta. "But what is often overlooked and shouldn't be, in fairness, is that the New York Times is arguably the greatest newspaper in the world, and a paper that saved itself over the last more than a decade by going national. The person who made that decision was
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. ...What happens if
Jack Welch, who [could end up owning] the Boston Globe, or
David Geffen or
Eli Broad, who [could] own the L.A. Times, what happens the first time their new newspaper does a piece on one of their friends they don't like? Will they defend it? And that's a question that the jury's out on. The jury is not out on how the Sulzbergers respond to that. They've proven over the years that the journalism comes first." || More "OTM"
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