When it Raines. (Here Below).WE HAD HIGH HOPES FOR Howell Raines 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. He currently writes political commentary for British newspaper The Guardian. when he was named Executive Editor of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The 10 Executive Editors before him had been awesome, but the new man seemed to have all the credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. , plus one other thing that appealed to us--he was the first chief editor to have a connection with sport. He seemed to care about the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. and college sport, and he revered Bear Bryant Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913–January 26, 1983) was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum. ! Hey, we thought, this guy could be a ballplayer. He proved us wrong. He couldn't field his position. First error, informing his management team that he wanted a page 1 story on the coming Winter Olympic Games, but he didn't believe that the Times had anyone good enough to write it. Second error, announcing that he was going to recruit a marquee name like Red Smith or Jimmy Cannon For other people with similar names, see James Cannon Jimmy Cannon (born 1910 - December 5, 1973) was a sports journalist. He started at the New York Daily News when he was 17. He later wrote for the New York Post, New York Journal-American and King Features Syndicate. to launch a College Sport column because he didn't believe that Times sports had anyone good enough to do it. (Note: Red Smith would have laughed at him. Jimmy Cannon would have looked blank. "Nobody asked me but, college sport... what's that?") Third error, expressing his reverence for Bear Bryant with such bromides as, "When Coach Bryant walked into a ballpark, everyone there knew that a football game would be played here." And, "After winning a game, Coach Bryant would always say the same thing, 'I didn't play a single down. The team won the game.'" You can do a million things worse than quoting Bear Bryant on practically anything, but when you keep doing it all the time, you begin sounding like a jock 1. jock - A programmer who is characterised by large and somewhat brute-force programs. 2. jock - When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area. and people begin laughing at you. And that's exactly what happened at the New York Times. Why did the paper need a College Sport column when it was already giving the college game all the premium space it merited? Why did the opening of the Winter Olympics merit a page 1, column 1 story when there were four or five bigger stories demanding attention? And why did H.R. keep saying that the Times sports staff didn't have the kind of talent needed to write the big stories? The fact was that the Times had four excellent columnists, including a Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. winner, and at least five or six more writers who could handle any kind of feature story. Howell Raines was probably right when he once said that, "Standing behind Coach Bryant is like watching John Wayne." What he failed to understand is that you don't stand behind Coach Bryant and watch him. You listen to him, especially when he begins talking about team play, morale, and loyalty. You never tell a staff that they're not good enough to coach against the big guys. You let them know that they'd be the first guys you'd pick anytime you had to go to war against anyone. |
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