New York Times editors resign

The New York Times likes to think of itself as the newspaper of record in the US, not without some merit. Along with the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, the "Gray Lady" is generally considered one of the Shining Cities on the Hill of American journalism. So this is an event worthy of note.

This story is all over the major news sites, including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr's memo at CNN , an article with sidebars at CBS News , and a story at New York Times confession (which we reported here) to articles at Salon and elsewhere. Reading the stories, one begins to think these journalists believe they're somehow "special".

Well, bullshit I say. Journalism is a craft, albeit an intellectual one, but selling advertising and newspapers -- and managing journalists -- is a business. Dishonest employees in any business tend to get fired. Their managers who let them get away with it for too long tend to "resign".

US journalists need to get over themselves, get over their scandals, and get back to their real jobs: writing the news, raising hell, and telling truth to power. That's what Arthur Sulzberger Jr just told the New York Times. µ