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Thursday, June 05, 2003
Baron to NY? Uh, not so
fast. Newsweek's Seth Mnookin has identified Boston
Globe editor Marty
Baron as a possible
replacement for New York Times executive editor Howell Raines,
should Raines be ousted or leave.
But wait! Baron and two other
people Mnookin identifies as "obvious candidates" -- Times
columnist Bill Keller, who was managing editor in the previous
regime, and Los Angeles Times managing editor Dean Baquet,
who, like Baron, once served in the editing ranks of the NY
Times -- all say they haven't been contacted about the
job.
Mnookin has been a force of nature
on the whole Times/Raines/Jayson Blair saga. But is this
really a story?
Meanwhile, Slate's Mickey
Kaus has put Raines's
chances of departing at 70
percent. I would say that 90 percent or 10 percent would be just as
good a guess, wouldn't you?
posted at 8:52 AM |
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