The New York Times criticizes nepotism at Commentary but does not mention Pinch Sulzberger's reign at the Times. Is the newspaper actually trying to destroy its credibility?Can New York Times journalist Patricia Cohen not recognize the obvious parallels between the putative nepotism that is supposedly responsible for the announcement that John Podhoretz will become the next editor of Commentary (where his father has reigned) and the post of publisher and chairman of the board at the New York Times, a position that her paper's head inherited from his own father (as did his father and grandfather)? All this in a publicly-held corporation with an undemocratic dual-class shareholding structure that insulates the Sulzberger family from pressure to reward merit, and instead follows the logic of sanguinary ties. The Cohen article tries to indict neo-conservatives for hypocrisy since neo-conservatives believe in a meritocracy. One could point out that the New York Times always...(Read Full Post)