Today's NYT News Round-Up

Let’s talk more about The New York Times, which lately seems to be filling in as some sort of representative for the state of journalism everywhere, both good and bad. First up rumors of Bill Keller’s demise are apparently untrue. Gawker called Keller about the recent newsroom chatter that he would be out by the end of the year and Keller (mensch indeed!) called back to say, in as categorical a tone as one can possibly muster in these extremely uncertain times, that there was no truth to them whatsoever(!).