12/14/2005
A Tale of Two Editors
Jim Boyd, deputy editorial page editor at the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis: (E&P)
I have a very difficult time believing I deserve this award, but I am grateful for it. The last three years have been difficult. The pushback for our aggressive views has been intense. Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt organized a campaign to get people to drop subscriptions; we lost about 200, and it scared my superiors. Bloggers like Powerline harassed us continuously. A senator who shall go unnamed (hint: he's no fan of Kofi Annan) had breakfast with our publisher and warned him that we were beginning to be associated with the loony left and that I had an angry agenda.John Harris, Political Editor for the Washington Post (PressThink via firedoglake):
Well, you folks are not the loony left. So thank you for honoring me; it will help.
Q: Have officials from the White House complained to you or to Post political reporters about Froomkin’s column?Remember folks, whatever you do, don't frighten our leaders.
John Harris: They have never complained in a formal way to me, but I have heard from Republicans in informal ways making clear they think his work is tendentious and unfair. I do not have to agree with them in every instance that it is tendentious and unfair for me to be concerned about making clear who Dan is and who he is not regarding his relationship with the newsroom.
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