Wednesday, September 24, 2003
MEMO
To: Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe Columnist
From: Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of The New York Times Company
CC: Richard H. Gilman, Publisher of The Boston Globe
John Henry, Principal Owner of New England Sports Ventures
Sub: Abuse of Power
We at The New York Times Company, owner of the Boston Globe, request that you discontinue using our publication to promote your book. At times, negative columns and/or referring to the so called Curse are appropriate for publication, but now is not the time. After last evening's game, it was not appropriate to write about a message “…left on my office voice mail this week” for print in today’s Globe (Shaughnessy, Globe). It is a non-story. The man who left the message is irrelevant to the 2003 Boston Red Sox. The 2003 Boston Red Sox is the news.
Even though the Times Company is a minority partner of New England Sports Ventures, which owns the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park and 80% of the NESN, we want fair coverage of the team and organization. History and a supernatural phenomenon without a logical link to the 2003 Boston Red Sox performance is irresponsible journalism which appears to be motivated to increase sales of your book. Thus, we are suspending your column until further notice. At the Times, we still work by the motto: All the News That’s Fit to Print.
To: Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe Columnist
From: Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of The New York Times Company
CC: Richard H. Gilman, Publisher of The Boston Globe
John Henry, Principal Owner of New England Sports Ventures
Sub: Abuse of Power
We at The New York Times Company, owner of the Boston Globe, request that you discontinue using our publication to promote your book. At times, negative columns and/or referring to the so called Curse are appropriate for publication, but now is not the time. After last evening's game, it was not appropriate to write about a message “…left on my office voice mail this week” for print in today’s Globe (Shaughnessy, Globe). It is a non-story. The man who left the message is irrelevant to the 2003 Boston Red Sox. The 2003 Boston Red Sox is the news.
Even though the Times Company is a minority partner of New England Sports Ventures, which owns the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park and 80% of the NESN, we want fair coverage of the team and organization. History and a supernatural phenomenon without a logical link to the 2003 Boston Red Sox performance is irresponsible journalism which appears to be motivated to increase sales of your book. Thus, we are suspending your column until further notice. At the Times, we still work by the motto: All the News That’s Fit to Print.
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