<![CDATA[Because The New York Times Never Does Anything Controversial, Bill Keller Thinks It Probably Doesn't Need A Public Editor]]>

1.0 link 37706 <![CDATA[Because The New York Times Never Does Anything Controversial, Bill Keller Thinks It Probably Doesn't Need A Public Editor]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-sklar/because-the-new-york-time_b_37706.html Scoop from the New York Observer: Apparently the New York Times is deciding whether to eliminate the public editor position, first installed following the Jayson Blair plagiarism-and-making-front-page-news-up-out-of-his-head scandal. Executive editor Bill Keller told the Observer's Michael Calderone that the position might be eliminated after the current public editor, Byron Calame (aka "Barney") completes his term in May 2007.

Keller, who created the position as first order of business when he took over from Howell Raines in 2003, raised...

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