The Times, They Are a-Changin'; a Bucks County Reporter Raises Hackles at the Nation's Paper of Record.

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[Mullane]'s column was in response to [Howell Raines]' analysis of the [Jayson Blair] scandal that appears in the current Atlantic Monthly. In his 21,000-word opus, Raines offered a blunt assessment of the paper's inner culture, the writing of arrogant journalists, the complacent editors and the powerful labor unions that supposedly plague the paper.

"A newspaper's reputation rests with those who push the levers and make decisions regarding content--the editors," he continued. "Howell Raines might be gone, but many of the editors remain who kept silent and collected a paycheck while Jayson Blair typed his way into infamy. As long as these largely unseen boobs control the nation's most powerful newspaper, The New York Times will be easy to mock."

"Today I'm getting letters from big-time editors," laughs Mullane, who says he's finished writing about the Times. "Tomorrow it'll be back to obscurity. I've got no designs on fame and fortune. I'm a local-yokel columnist, and happily so."

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The Times, They Are a-Changin'; a Bucks County Reporter Raises Hackles at the Nation's Paper of Record.

J.D. Mullane's humorous, straight-talking columns for the Bucks County Courier Times are usually dedicated to, as he jokingly describes them, "local yokel" issues. One recent column told the...

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