As I noted below, Ken Aulleta at The New Yorker puts a heavy emphasis on Jill Abramson finding out a male predecessor and a male subordinate both had higher compensation then she did. She purportedly approached senior management about this and this, in part, led to her dismissal.
The Times version of the story puts considerably more focus on an issue Aulleta treats in passing: Abramson’s desire to Janine Gibson from The Guardian to the paper to oversee digital with at least nominally the same title. Aulleta said it was understood that Gibson would report to Baquet. The Times has this point rather differently …
If embittered hostility to President Obama is tied to race, why did the GOP go the full crazy on Bill Clinton? My take on the presidency and race.
For those of you who think millennials are getting too PC or persnickety with their commencement speaker protests, open your eyes. This has been going on for decades. Great piece.
Here are photos of the announcement of former executive editor Jill Abramson in the NYT newsroom. Her name has already been replaced on the paper’s masthead.
Federal Judge Candy Dale denies Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s request to put gay marriages on hold while he appeals her decision striking down the state’s ban on same sex marriages. So Friday is the day to get your same-sex marriage license in Idaho.
From TPM Reader PL …
I’m from the deep pit of the south, Biloxi and remember hearing my racist Jewish father passing rumors about Clinton’s black father back and forth among his racist friends, luridly snickering all the while, and also that Clinton’s mother had been a prostitute. This just seems like an interesting aside to your post today about Clinton.
For years, we’ve had a running conversation about how much or whether the often vitriolic, seemingly gut level opposition to President Obama is tied to his race as opposed to simple partisanship, opposition to policies and more. It’s a tangled question since supporters and opponents each bring preconceptions and commitments to it. And it’s a question that is inherently over-determined since the same people who might bear a racial animus toward the President probably also oppose him intensely purely on policy grounds.
But we do have a resounding counter-factual always ready at hand: Bill Clinton.
GOP strategist has an idea about how to get Karl Rove to quit wildly speculating about whether Hillary Clinton suffered a “traumatic brain injury.”
Ed Kilgore: Yo, GOP establishment, is this what your comeback year is supposed to look like?