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Apr 03 2009 5:33pm EDT

The Takeaway: Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

It's been quite the week for Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Mark Bowden's extremely long Vanity Fair profile painted a bull's eye on the New York Times publisher, and it's been target practice all week. But Young Arthur, a.k.a. Pinch, plenty of defenders, too. A sampling of his clippings:

Slate: Jack Shafer says Sulzberger is only the latest in a line of not-so-bright Times publishers: "If Arthur Jr. is a simpleton, he upholds a family tradition."

BusinessWeek: Jon Fine thinks Sulzberger may not be doing any better than his peers at other newspaper companies, but he's not doing any worse, either; moreover, he deserves points for safeguarding the paper's journalism.

Daily Beast: Ditto from Eric Alterman, who takes the Chris Crocker approach. "If say, Paul Krugman or Warren Buffett or George Soros, etc., cannot figure out how to save this dying industry, why blame poor, likeable Arthur?" he asks.

NYO: John Koblin notes that the Times, which historically has shrugged off its critics, has lately taken to aggressively rebutting their charges. □

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