Les Payne, the columnist for Newsday, took serious issue with that fascinating New York magazine piece on the rise and fall of the late New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd, above. Boyd’s head rolled following the Jayson Blair scandal, and his firing knocked him from the post at the Times’ helm that was his life’s ambition. Payne says the New York piece inaccurately “imbues the Times’ motivation [in promoting Boyd] with an enlightened sense of racial fair play.”
So it was the Rosario consent decree that boosted Boyd, not goodwill from the Times or altruism… This is not to diminish Boyd’s talent and hard work. . . .
With Boyd gone from his high perch, the Times has recovered from the affirmative effects of the Rosario consent decree. In a city nearly a third African-American, The New York Times, for example, covers the 75 percent black NFL and the 15 percent white NBA with a huge sports staff that among its editors, reporters and columnists fields only a single, black staffer, the columnist Bill Rhoden.
There is a word that describes this pattern of coverage the Rosario suit addressed, but out of respect for Boyd’s deep and unrequited love for the Times, I will not use the ‘r’ word here.”
Woodmere Village’s bizarre-ass racism. Stop us if you’ve heard this before: allegations are
