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To: D. Long who wrote (657)	5/8/2003 1:36:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793905

RAINES WATCH UPDATE: ANDREW SULLIVAN The ramifications of the Jayson Blair affair at the New York Times continue to mount. This piece in the Washington City Paper suggests that the Times' entire coverage of the Washington sniper case may be compromised. There's also the news that the Times has seen a big slide in readership - a 5.3 percent drop in the last six months. The Times spokesperson attributes this to an unusual peak in the wake of 9/11. But it would seem to me that the period of the buildup and then execution of the Iraq war would have been just as busy for a newspaper like the Times. Other media outlets - cable news, blogs like this one - boomed in the last six months. The general figures for all newspapers as a whole held steady. The New York Post saw a huge gain of over 10 percent - in the same city as the Times. The only paper to do worse than the Times was the Boston Globe, which coincidentally, has been recently taken over by 43d Street, and has seen its previously pious liberal bias become a left-wing anti-war screech. What's going on here? There was a price increase, which might have made a difference. But surely the downward lurch of the Times' editorial standards and its sharp turn leftward may well have something to do with the circulation decline. At some point, I presume, Arthur Sulzberger will see what Raines is achieving. andrewsullivan.com