Clark Hoyt, public editor (ombudsman) of the New York Times, writes about that newspaper's own coverage of the business problems facing the paper. There is an acknowledgement of the fact that there is indeed trouble, that the paper has not covered it as fully as it might because of internal sensitivities, and a comparison drawn to the Bancroft family, which controls Dow-Jones, parent of the Wall Street Journal. All well and good. But there are two key elements of the story which are missing:No acknowledgement is given to the paper's sharp turn to the left under fourth generation family member Arthur Ochs "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr. His ongoing destruction of the paper's brand image as a fair and complete "newspaper of record" is undermining the foundations of the family fortune. One can reasonably argue about the degree of bias he has injected, but I don't think anyone can dispute that many critics have faulted the paper for politicizing its editorial product.No...(Read Full Post)