1. This is tangential to the main issues, but I did appreciate the digression in @benyt's piece about the late Abe Rosenthal. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/new-york-times-washington-post-protests.html …
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2. The kids today don't remember him but Abe Rosenthal was a big editor at the New York Times whose main job in the 1970s was to make sure Seymour Hersh didn't put too much truth into the newspaper.
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3. It was the time of Watergate, so the Times needed Hersh to compete with Woodward & Bernstein. They let Hersh publish some truths about Nixon & Kissinger, but not too much. Rosenthal was the guy who held the line. His gravestone reads: “He kept the paper straight."
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4. For his services, the Times rewarded Rosenthal late in life with a column. He was, hands down, the worst columnist has ever had. Just unbelievably bad.
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