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	New York Times Company: Our Company: Executives: Howell Raines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pulitzer Prize winner, Howell Raines was named executive editor of The New York Times in September 2001, after having served as editorial page editor of The Times since January 1993.
		Raines also wrote "Whiskey Man," a novel published by Viking, and "My Soul is Rested," an oral history of the civil rights movement published by Putnam.
		Raines received a B.A. degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964.
	www.nytco.com /company-executives-hraines.html (276 words)

	Ken Auletta :: Articles - The Howell Doctrine
		Raines says that his hope was to persuade Abramson eventually "to move to New York as part of the masthead or as a department head." But Abramson had become bureau chief only the previous January, and her son was still in high school.
		Raines went out of his way to praise Abramson, and to say that he saw her in a larger role at the paper, and she and Dowd were somewhat mollified.
		Raines was "a kindred spirit: a contrarian whose values had taken shape during the sixties, who viewed the world as a moral battleground." Sulzberger wanted the editorial page to speak with his voice--a more pointed, less old-fashioned voice--and, when Raines suggested the column, Sulzberger made a counterproposal: become editorial-page editor, succeeding Jack Rosenthal.
	www.kenauletta.com /howelldoctrine.html (15029 words)

	Howell Raines applies to the conventional-wisdom club - Salon
		In this powerful role, Raines got out the torches and pitchforks for a number of targets undeserving of the Times' high dudgeon, from nonexistent Clinton corruption to witch-hunt victim Wen Ho Lee and the China spy "scandals." Two things have changed since Raines last wrote for a living, though.
		Raines ignores the fact that Bush's approval ratings are in free-fall, plummeting nearly 20 percent since January, and that he's now trailing Kerry in a majority of the national polls.
		Raines concludes that if Kerry can't effectively communicate to voters his vision for Iraq and the economy then his run at the White House is doomed.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2004/06/04/raines/index.html (966 words)

	Poynter Online - Howell Raines: Gone Fishin'
		Gene Patterson had hired Howell as political editor of the paper, and Howell was breaking new ground, reporting and writing a series of profiles of gubernatorial candidates that were as unremitting in their candor as they were compelling in their literary flair.
		Howell described for me his mission, which was to get more information about political figures into the paper -— especially revealing details that other reporters left out, about the self-described environmentalist, for example, who wore expensive alligator shoes.
		When Howell quotes Alabama football coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant, or when he writes with such passion about the "redneck" way of fishing, it is not in the mode of a professional Southern, but as a true son of the Southern soil.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=36467 (1204 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Howell Raines's Tenure: It Left a Nasty Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jerelle Kraus, a Times art director, told reporters that Raines reminds her of "Caligula" and is "the nastiest editor I've ever worked with." One Times veteran says there is still "venom" in the air toward the departed executive editor.
		Raines, whose considerable strengths as an editor have been overlooked during the media furor, played an inside game -- writing memos and holding meetings with disaffected staffers.
		As for Raines, it's a shame that the editor who led his paper to six Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of 9/11 couldn't win over the journalists who made those prizes, and the superlative daily reporting of the Times, possible.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A32459-2003Jun8?language=printer (1115 words)

	Amazon.com: The One that Got Away: A Memoir (Lisa Drew Books (Hardcover)): Books: Howell Raines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Howell Raines' memoir, The One That Got Away, is a sequel to his best selling Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis, and is an account of the latest years of his life including his remarriage and his career as executive editor of The New York Times.
		Howell Raines says he had "no way of knowing and no cause to be consulted" about Jayson's rapid promotion from trainee to reporter, his lack of professionalism, or his frequent errors.
		Raines uses the metaphor of hooking and losing a large fish to describe his career; the surprise of getting a job that was beyond his expectations (hooking the fish), the long tedious years of work (fighting the fish), and his unexpected firing (losing the fish).
	www.amazon.com /One-that-Got-Away-Hardcover/dp/0743272781 (1762 words)

	News Analysis: It's the Culture
		Whoever follows Raines at the Times, he or she must have the strength of character to invite thoughtful criticism, from whatever quarter.
		Raines and his more imperious predecessors polarized their staffs and made them compete with each other for newsroom resources, including the favor of the executive editor.
		Had Raines sat down every morning and sent an email of praise to those responsible for the paper's 10 best stories, we would be writing about his superb management instead of analyzing what went wrong.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/73/nyt.html (1407 words)

	The New Yorker : archive : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Raines is built close to the ground (he is five feet eight), with short, stocky legs that churn rapidly—like those of "a Tasmanian devil," one female reporter says.
		Raines was "a kindred spirit: a contrarian whose values had taken shape during the sixties, who viewed the world as a moral battleground." Sulzberger wanted the editorial page to speak with his voice—a more pointed, less old-fashioned voice—and, when Raines suggested the column, Sulzberger made a counterproposal: become editorial-page editor, succeeding Jack Rosenthal.
		Raines said, "It was always surprising to me the degree to which the Clinton people saw things in personal terms"—an odd observation, since Raines had changed the tone at the Times but still expected the editorial page to be treated as if it maintained a detached voice.
	www.newyorker.com /archive/content/?030616fr_archive05 (15214 words)

	Howell Raines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Howell Hiram Raines (born February 5, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) was Executive Editor of The New York Times from 2001 until his resignation following the Jayson Blair scandal in 2003.
		Raines in 1964 began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Tuscaloosa News in Alabama.
		After a year as a reporter at the Birmingham News, Raines became political editor of the Atlanta Constitution in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howell_Raines (599 words)

	CJR Daily: Howell Raines, Political Advisor - Who Knew?
		Howell Raines, the recently deposed executive editor of The New York Times today has his first in a series of dispatches for The (U.K.) Guardian about the U.S. election.
		And, with typical modesty, Raines warns John Kerry that unless he rolls up his sleeves and gets real, it's all over; that the Kerry persona is altogether too pompous, too ponderous and too off-message to stand a chance against the Bush re-election machine.
		Raines himself hasn't actually hit the campaign trail, of course, but he has talked to those who have, and he worries that, "Every time I talk to a reporter who has covered him, new doubts creep in about his ability to connect with voters."
	www.cjrdaily.org /politics/howell_raines_political_adviso.php (539 words)

	American Journalism Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Howell hired me, and I worked under him...and the man who has been described by newsroom critics is not a person I ever knew or remembered." She characterized the much-chastised fallen editor as "very open, a joy to work with" and as "a spectacular leader."
		Bragg's published comments that this was the way the Times operated (and Raines and Co.'s slowness in countering those claims) prompted impassioned criticisms from Times reporters, who stressed that they did their own work.
		Naughton, who was a Times Washington correspondent from 1969 to 1977, says Raines' ouster "runs the risk of giving credence to the critics who want to attack the Times." The departed editor was a particular target of conservatives, who accused Raines of using the news pages of the paper to advance a liberal agenda.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=3049 (1007 words)

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		Raines was born in February 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of a successful lumber and woodworking businessman.
		Raines was "a Southern liberal frozen in a '60s mindset, [who] wants to be able to say, 'I broke Augusta,'" wrote right-wing columnist Pat Buchanan in December 2002.
		Raines' words make clear that merit, achievement and ability were not his highest criteria in hiring and promotion.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=647 (1976 words)

	The autobiography of Howell Raines. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Raines writes that he had "twenty-five great years at the Times—and one bad month," namely the Jayson Blair scandal, although the warning signs of his demise were apparent for months before Blair exposed his flank.
		Raines erects on nearly every page of his personal history the straw man that he was the champion of improvement and his foes were agin' it, a reductionist and self-serving argument.
		Raines seems not to appreciate that had it not been for the backdraft of 9/11—which blew in six days after he became editor and motivated the staff in a way that no mortal could have—his departure from the Times could have been even swifter.
	slate.msn.com /id/2097749 (1603 words)

	"Big Fish Story" by James Warren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If Raines was watching, he came in presumably after a tranquil day of fly fishing, his passion, and presumably with no great surprise, given his obvious understanding of newspaper culture.
		Raines presents his reader with a self-image of a misunderstood warrior who sought to revitalize a sclerotic institution that likens to a "eutrophic lake," a body of water so thick with algae that the supply of oxygen decreases until few other organisms can flourish.
		Raines is strongest when he goes macro, suggesting that newspapers' chief problem is less any of the reflexively-cited ailments--the internet, media competition, lack of civic engagement, youth more interested in IMing than reading--than the fact that many newspapers simply aren't good enough.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2006/0606.warren.html (1480 words)

	Moonbattery: Howell Raines Still Knows How to Get Laughs
		Remember Howell Raines, the former Executive Editor of the New York Times, who was forced out in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair scandal, when the Shady Gray Lady had to admit to making up the news?
		Raines is also remembered for his absurd campaign to get women admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club, which provided comic relief by displacing actual news as everyone else focused on the impending war in Iraq.
		The more Raines' pronouncements are publicized, the more more his lack of news judgement is exposed, the more that question must be asked of the Sulzbergers and the NYT Board of Directors.
	www.moonbattery.com /archives/2006/06/howell_raines_s.html (254 words)

	Howell Raines -- Topic Index -- TimesWatch.org
		Former Times executive editor Howell Raines gives his side of the story on Charlie Rose, discussing his 21-month tenure as a “change agent” attempting to shake up the paper’s “lethargic culture.” He doesn’t lack for self-esteem.
		Howell Raines called critics of Iraq coverage and possible military intervention “ideological” and compared debate over the issue with the debate on Vietnam.
		Rumors were that Howell Raines was to be named the new executive editor.
	www.timeswatch.org /topicindex/R/howell_raines/welcome.asp (1007 words)

	Howell Raines, ignorant bigot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here is a comment I posted at FrontPage Magazine in response to a piece about Howell Raines' amazing article in the Guardian in which Raines, no longer held back by his position as New York Times editor, uncovered his anti-Republican bigotry in all its aroma.
		Raines isn't just a bigot, but is totally unable to assimilate reality.
		So, in this case, according to Raines, Reagan didn't simply thrash the incumbent Carter who was widely seen as a failed leader; Reagan found a tiny flaw of Carter's and unfairly and viciously exploited that flaw and made Carter seem so much worse than anyone had previously imagined him to be.
	www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/002329.html (553 words)

	Powell's Books - The One That Got Away: A Memoir (Lisa Drew Books) by Howell Raines
		Raines traces his own fascination with its larger resonances to the day when his childhood caregiver, of whom he has written fondly elsewhere, read him Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea,' from the Sept. 1, 1952, issue of Life.
		On the evidence here, everyday that Howell Raines was not writing stories was a day misspent — none more so, perhaps, than in his run as editorial page editor of the Times: days of solemn, forgettable stridulation.
		Raines does mix among the fishing stories his candid observations about the Times and newspaper journalism generally, along with juicy cracks at political targets of opportunity.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0743272781 (1110 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis: Books: Howell Raines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Raines traces his progress, he sketches many giants in the still-young history of American fly fishing, endorses the catch-and-release philosophy, and comes to accept death's place in life.
		Raines writes a wonderful, heartwarming story of how fishing was a part of growing up, and then through fishing and one fishing related friendship in particular, of how he came to grips with some of the fundamental issues of life.
		Howell Raines made friends with a man who became his companion and mentor, and then that man died, and he had a hard time dealing with it.
	www.amazon.ca /Fly-Fishing-Through-Midlife-Crisis/dp/0385475195 (1245 words)

	SHIP'S LOG OF A MUTINY: Why Howell Raines Had to Walk the Plank Columbia Journalism Review - Find Articles
		As a result, during the critical period before the invasion of that country, a half-dozen sources within the paper told Mnookin, Raines wanted to prove that he wasn't editing the paper in a way that hewed to his liberal sensibilities.
		When he took over, Raines instituted a new 10:30 meeting of the masthead editors, and Mnookin is insightful on the implications.
		Raines wanted the marching orders - the ideas, the creative approaches - to flow downward, from him and his small circle, rather than up, from department heads and their reporters, who were actually out in the world gathering news.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_200411/ai_n9460967 (839 words)

	How Howell Raines Enables Journalistic and Presidential Lying, by Dennis Hans - Democratic Underground
		Raines' one great accomplishment at the Times came in 1999 when, as editor of the editorial pages, he hired Paul Krugman, a professor of economics at Princeton, to write a twice-a-week column.
		Raines qualifies, perhaps, as a below average "dinner-party-guest editorial writer." His work on the editorial page, including suppressing the L-word, earned him a promotion to executive editor of the news pages of the Times.
		Raines helped Bush get away with lying during Campaign 2000 and he helped him get away with lying in the long buildup to the war.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/03/05/15_raines.html (1083 words)

	Clay Waters on Howell Raines on National Review Online
		The recurring theme is that of Raines being constantly flummoxed by the paper's balky bureaucracy and the colleagues who lack his courage and vision.
		The very idea of Raines looking for more provocative sports columnists is laughable, considering the way he and managing editor Gerald Boyd slammed columnists Harvey Araton and Dave Anderson for actually daring to be "provocative" by rebelling against the paper's editorial-page line on Augusta National.
		Raines huffs: "I do feel that had I been in the bureaucratic loop on the memo, the Jayson Blair story would have ended there." Perhaps Landman knew Raines had praised Blair in public and was reluctant to come out against the newsroom autocrat?
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/waters200404150850.asp (959 words)

	Aspen Times News for Aspen Colorado - News
		Howell Raines might have viewed his meteoric fall from journalistic grace as a dead end, but he instead saw a new opportunity.
		Raines strayed from the book to lament the direction journalism is headed in - a path he feels is too strongly dictated by consumerism.
		Raines opted not to go in-depth since he no longer is a working journalist, but offered a bit of a leak of his own:
	www.aspentimes.com /article/20060721/NEWS/107210065/-1/rss01 (627 words)

	Donald Luskin on Howell Raines & Paul Krugman on NRO Financial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Raines was so deep as to be most likely irreparable...
		Raines had to step down because the Times's relentless and reckless ultra-left wing agenda was destroying the world's greatest newspaper franchise.
		Raines was the instrument of the destruction, with his rogues gallery of radical liberal op-ed screedsters and his capricious and exploitive "flood the zone" campaigns against Enron, Augusta, the war in Iraq, the peace in Iraq, Bush's tax cuts, and all the rest.
	www.nationalreview.com /nrof_luskin/truthsquad060603.asp (1184 words)

	Media Research Center Spotlight -- Editor and Partisan - Howell Raines
		Bill Clinton had “huge political talent,” presided over the “greatest prosperity in human history,” and held onto the “principles of social justice,” Raines told interviewer Charlie Rose.
		Raines has repeatedly shown personal animosity for Ronald Reagan and other Republicans like former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.
		Raines had proven himself to be a partisan, Samuelson argued, and the national media’s acceptance of this promotion without comment was more proof of liberal bias.
	www.mediaresearch.org /mrcspotlight/raines/welcome.asp (279 words)

	Instapundit.com - JOHN ELLIS calls Howell Raines'
		The Rainesian management model resembles a kind of anti-network; in which an ever-smaller number of people are engaged in the guidance and definition of the enterprise.
		Raines is a prime candidate to fall into this trap, since his ego needs greatly exceed his management skills.
		I can't speak to Raines' management skills except to note that the Times seems to be getting steadily smugger, sloppier, and more biased.
	www.instapundit.com /archives/000321.php (175 words)

	Defending Howell Raines. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
		The hanging posse has noosed New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines and is calling for his resignation and a public stoning in Times Square.
		When Raines replaced him in September 2001, he snuffed the Lelyveld enlightenment and began packing the house with loyalists.
		One clue that the outrage has less to do with the crime committed on Raines' watch than schadenfreude can be found in the story of fabricator Christopher Newton.
	www.slate.com /id/2082896 (2220 words)

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