• New Yorker, Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:30 AM

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of the New York Times Company, is not an easy subject, but Ken Auletta, The New Yorker's prolific media writer, takes him on in the Dec. 19 issue, saying of Sulzberger that "he will be judged on his overall stewardship of [the company], and perhaps, inevitably, he has now become a target, in much the way that Howell Raines was."  Auletta devotes much of his piece to the Times' handling of the Judith Miller matter, which did not redound to the paper's credit nor to its standing within certain political circles.  Sulzberger is faulted as well for his corporate conservatism, for failing to sufficiently broaden the Times Company's portfolio.  Still, Auletta writes, Sulzberger need not worry about an insurrection:  His executive team at the New York Times has recently rallied around him in a public way, and his powerful, extended family is always been there to offer its support.

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