Money quote from the LA Times:
[I]n the end, it was the new world of Web sites, blogs, online editions and e-mails – not Raines – that set the pace of his exit.
Adapt or die.And here’s what Alex Jones told the Newshour:
I think there’s one other element that is worth noting. I think this story has been kept alive, in many ways, by the Internet, I think in the world that journalists occupy especially this story has just kept on and on.
Exactly.
THE PERILS OF DIVERSITY: Also from the Jim Lehrer show:
ALEX JONES: And I think these two firings – not two firings, these two resignations, these two… this dramatic gesture that has been made by Howell Raines and Gerald Jordan…
TERENCE SMITH: Gerald Boyd…
ALEX JONES: …I mean, Gerald Boyd.. is something that has a great symbolic power, and I’m hoping that that is going to say that this is a, you know, a ship that is too important to not do the painful thing when it’s required.
Gerald Boyd. Michael Jordan. Michael Boyd. Gerald Jordan. Hard to keep all those black guys straight sometimes, isn’t it?
The Dish 