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“Think of [the New York Times’ affirmative action program] in a nonracial context: Suppose the owner of a big company sends his kid to learn the business and tells low-level managers to treat him just like anyone else. The managers curry favor with the boss by reporting that his son is doing great and is a natural genius for this business. So the kid keeps getting praised and promoted, until one day he is actually put in charge of something he has no ability to run. That is cruel. And it’s the story of Pinch Sulzberger, isn’t it?” – Ann Coulter.

THE RAINES REGIME: Don’t buy the “I’m a humble new man” spiel of yesterday. While Raines was spinning his way out of real responsibility for the Blair mess, the Boston Globe (owned by Sulzberger) was spiking a column critical of the Times. Dictators don’t reform. They have to be deposed.

QUOTE FOR THE DAY II: “The issue in advancing newsroom diversity is that you have to get people into gate-keeper roles. You have to force your hiring managers to find talent and demand that every pool of applicants for any job includes at least one woman and one minority.” – Arthur Sulzberger Jr., on how he imposes racial preferences in every single job at the paper (except his own), August 8, 2002.