NYT Recieves Letter Containing Suspicious White Powder — And A Bank Records Editorial

Reuters Gawker Posted Friday July 14, 2006 at 05:05 PM

The eighth floor of the New York Times building has been evacuated after today receiving a letter containing a suspicious white powder and a copy of an editorial addressing the bank records controversy with a red "X" through it, in an episode reminiscent of the anthrax-letter scare of late 2001. The handwritten envelope was addressed simply to "The New York Times" and was postmarked from Philadelphia with no return address. The man who opened the envelope was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure, according to Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis. Investigators are currently on the scene and staffers have been instructed not to enter the eighth floor.

Let's see what Melanie Morgan thinks about this.
Related: Electrocute Bill Keller! No, hang him! [Salon]
UPDATE: It's not anthrax.

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NY Times Editor Admits Paper Made Mistakes In Run Up To War: “I Would Have Paid A Lot More Attention To The People On The Board Who Had Doubts”...

Editor and Publisher Joe Strupp July 14, 2006 at 03:55 PM

When Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. first raised the question of a job change for Gail Collins in 2001, she was afraid he was going to fire her. "I was at a party and he was there," Collins, then an Op-Ed columnist, recalled. "He whipped around and said, 'do you like your job? Would you give it up?' "

The result, of course, was just the opposite. Instead of being fired, she was promoted, becoming the paper's first female editorial page editor and replacing Howell Raines, who went on to a short, tumultuous reign as executive editor.

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