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Jun 03 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: L.A. Times Turnover, N.Y. Times Folly

James Newton, the third editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times in as many years, will leave at the end of July. He took the job 14 months ago and leaves to finish a book on President Eisenhower. [E&P]

A New York Times article prompts The Atlantic's Megan McArdle to propose the Megan Tax, for people who plainly have too much money. [The Atlantic]

After Vice President Cheney's joke about West Virginia raised a stink, Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review asks who, exactly, is allowed to make jokes about Appalachia. [NR] via [TNR]

A blog that usually trains its keen sensibilities on Wall Street takes time to rank the Top 25 newspaper websites. [24/7 Wall St.]

When Bill Clinton said, "The editor of Esquire, he sent us an email yesterday and said it [a Vanity Fair article on Clinton] was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades," was he referring to Esquire editor-in-chief David
Granger? No, actually. [NYO]

by George Quarishi

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacation.)


This post was modified to correct an error in the last item on President Bill Clinton.

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