The New York Times’ Pointless Pursuit of Right-Wing “Buzz” Stories

Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was "slow off the mark," and blamed "insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio." She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies.

— New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt, September 26 column [emphasis added]