Who'd be surprised if, one day soon, there arises a quiet effort to replace Dean Baquet as executive editor of the New York Times? It could happen because it's a certainty that there are current and former Timesmen, from reporters and editors to members of the controlling Ochs-Sulzberger family, who see and rue what has happened to the paper on Baquet's watch.
The two most recent editorial catastrophes have been the Times' errant and malicious accusations against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, and the launch of the papers' so-called “1619 Project,” an attempt to rewrite American history as the story of slavery and racism, then and now.
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