Ken Layne has a lot of stuff about the old New York Times, including this anecdote:
When your whole journalistic game is Serious & Sober & Working for the Good of Society, you can't survive becoming a national joke. I got a telemarketing call to renew my NYT home delivery the other day, and I said, "Nah, that paper just makes shit up." The guy chuckled wearily and said, "Yeah, that's what people tell me all day."Posted by Dr. Frank at June 9, 2003 09:00 AM | TrackBackJesus! All day long this guy is calling people who used to pay for the paper and now they're telling him, "No thanks, we don't want your lies." That's the legacy of Howell Raines.