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Bill Keller

• November 3 -- Will the Times Take Its Own Advice?
From the Times' post-election, pre-concession lead editorial: "When a victor is finally, officially announced, it is important for the entire country to accept him as the rightful president." But will Bill Keller?

• November 1 -- The Times Finally Checks Out Its Own Scoop
The Times finally questions ("Why is this coming out in the week before the election?") its suspiciously timed "scoop" on missing Iraq explosives -- on the back pages of the Saturday edition.

• July 30 -- NYT (Finally) Mentions Kerry's Flip-Flop on Use of Vietnam Footage
Jim Rutenberg files "New Skirmish Over Images From Vietnam in a Kerry Video," which includes details of a Kerry flip-flop regarding his personal Vietnam footage first highlighted on Times Watch.

• July 29 -- Kerry Breaks Pledge to NYT's Keller -- Will the Times Take Note?
Jim Rutenberg on the Kerry bio-pic: "As the film details Mr. Kerry's own war service, in Vietnam, it shows the grainy film that Mr. Kerry brought back, mixed with archival footage of the war." But in 2002 Kerry told current Times Executive Editor Bill Keller "I have no intention of using" that footage.

• April 1 -- Two Standards on Tasteless Photos
The Times hit Bush for campaign ads showing brief clips of 9-11. But Thursday's front page proves it has no compunction against prominently displaying far more gruesome photos: The burned bodies of American civilians hanging from a bridge after an attack in Iraq.

• January 29 -- The Times Discovers New Species: Conservatus Republicus
Conservative media denizens reacted with bemusement to the news that the Times is starting a "conservative beat." Times Editor Bill Keller admits in an interview: "We haven’t always had a real three-dimensional understanding of where conservative activists are coming from."

• October 27 -- Times Appoints First-Ever Public Editor
The Times announces the appointment of a former Life magazine editor, Daniel Okrent, as the paper's ombudsman. A colleague of Okrent remarks: "He loves fairness and accuracy." Times Watch hopes that turns out to be true.

• October 23 -- Retaining a Stalinist's Stained Pulitzer
Giving back Stalinist apologist and Times reporter Walter Duranty's 1932 Pulitzer Prize would in itself evoke Stalinist purging, says publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and the idea gives executive editor Bill Keller "the creeps."

• July 31 -- Will ‘Siegal’ Soothe Times Egos?
The Times releases the Siegal Report, an account of its failures in the wake of the Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg controversies. It includes a note from panel member and far-left activist Roger Wilkins, defending the paper’s “aggressive” diversity quest and bashing America: “The Times newsroom is an American place and is thus touched--as are virtually all American places--by our culture, including some remnants of hostility to minorities and women.”

• July 31 -- The Times Names Two Managing Editors
In a surprise move, the Times names not one but two managing editors, Jill Abramson and John Geddes. Abramson is co-author of "Strange Justice," a biography of Clarence Thomas that criticized Democrats for not looking hard enough into Thomas' sex life before his confirmation.

• July 15 -- The Times Newsroom Lets Off Some Steam
Tuesday’s Times media reporter Jacques Steinberg’s piece on Bill Keller’s imminent ascension to the executive editor’s slot (effective July 30) lets off some internal newsroom steam against pushed-out executive editor Howell Raines.

• July 14 -- Raines Says He Was Pushed
Former Times executive editor Howell Raines gives his side of the story on Charlie Rose, discussing his 21-month tenure as a “change agent” attempting to shake up the paper’s “lethargic culture.” He doesn’t lack for self-esteem.

• June 30 -- Bill Keller Stands Up For Discrimination
Columnist Bill Keller, Howell Raines’ possible successor, sounds downright Rainesian on race issues. Keller’s Sunday op-ed lauds discrimination and calls Clarence Thomas “a black jurist of questionable distinction.”