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Formerly The New York Times Publisher and Chief Executive, the media legend Arthur Ochs Sulzberger known as “Punch” who guided the newspaper and parent company through 34 years of tumultuous change, died today at his home in Southampton, Long Island, after a long illness. He was 86. His death was announced by his family whose primary publication notes how Sulzberger’s leadership spanned “from the heyday of postwar America to the twilight of the 20th century, from the era of hot lead and Linotype machines to the birth of the digital world.” Certainly the newspaper and parent company has never been the same since he stepped down in 1992. Now run by his son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr (aka “Pinch”), the NYT has posted online a superb obituary that is part tribute and part memoir. So Deadline is sending you there.
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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In many ways a clueless upperclass twit (see Gay Talese’s “The Kingdom and the Power,” and in particular the section about Punch and the European race crash), but his heart was in the right place. Most of all Punch believed in a Times that was rigorous and fair, values found in short supply these days in the paper that Pinch and Jill Abramson publish–an increasingly shrill and biased bit of lefty agitprop.
“And biased bit of lefty agitprop” Really?
The paper that matched Fox News and the Wall Street Journal drum beat for drum beat on invading Iraq? The paper that to this day refuses to color any of its op-ed pages brown twice a week. (for the charts and graphs needy – Hispanic columnist)
No my delusional friend, the New York Times doesn’t have the “lefty” gravitas to match up the aforementioned Far Right trash in an egg-eating contest. Much less provide any kind of true liberal commentary that understands the choice before us is clear: 1) that America will be much better off with the continuation of the Bush-lite presidency, despite how horrible it’s been, 2) than the indentured servitude waiting for us with the Koch brothers and their kind.
Always nice to hear right-wing vitriol in place of honorable tribute.
“An increasingly shrill and biased bit of lefty agitprop”. WTF? Lighten up, Francis.
A kind man, brilliant executive, and OG power player. RIP.
Too bad it couldn’t have been Pinch instead.