Some newspapers are more equal than other newspapers. That's the only conclusion to be reached from the moral posturing indulged in by senior exexcutives from the New York Times Company.The company is playing hardball with its employees, many of them unionized, at the Boston Globe, demanding pay cuts, or else the paper will be closed. Executed, if you will, in cold blood. Leaving hundreds of employees jobless and desperate in a bad economy. Exactly the kind of hardball the NYT routinely denounced in the past when less exalted companies made hard-=headed decisions costing union members their jobs. But when it comes to the mothership, the moral calculus is entirely different.  Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, addressing some journalism students at Stanford University said something so extraordinary that you might wonder if he was drunk. Or on drugs. Other explanations don't work. This is the kind of metaphor that, when you read it, you're left...(Read Full Post)