The Sacking of Sydney Schanberg

New York Times employees of every rank and station formed lines outside Sydney Schanberg’s tenth-floor office for several days after his “New York” column was unceremoniously discontinued early last fall. They weren’t all there in support of Schanberg’s liberal-progressive positions on real estate speculation and city policy toward the victims, nor, they knew, were those positions by themselves the reason for his sacking.

Instead, many Times ...