AGAINST YOUTH
Here's a provocative piece on the downside of the post-Raines NYT: the return of prejudice against youth, the Internet, and popular culture. I have no independent knowledge of anything it's talking about, but it's interesting.
There's youth and there's youth. I've known journalistic prodigies who seemed much more experienced than their years. (One of them, briefly my colleague at Inc., became managing editor of the WaPost at 39.) In my own life, I was terribly immature and undeveloped as a 22-year-old WSJ reporter and completely qualified to become editor of Reason at 29 (despite the trustee who objected to the appointment of "that girl). And, as all Web readers know, there are Internet sites and Internet sites. It's a diverse medium.