Pinch Pinched By NY Observer

Arthur O. "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr., who's radical liberalization of the NYTimes has made him one of the men working hardest to screw up America, gets his come-uppance in a Tom Scocca piece in NY Observer. Here's an excerpt designed to encourage you to read the whole piece:

The New York Times is not as trusted and respected as it was a year ago—or even seven weeks ago. Morale is not, as you told Charlie Rose, “doing just great.”

The thing is, it’s hard to tell whether you believe what you’re saying, or just want us to believe it.

It’s hard to decide which would be worse. You are the publisher of The New York Times. Your stock price is on the skids. Your newsroom is having its second meltdown in three years. Your great First Amendment showdown ended in a crushing legal defeat for the profession and a public-relations debacle for The Times.

Yet there you sat, in front of the cameras: contrite, in theory, but without a visible shred of humility.

h/t Media Bistro