New New York Times Public Editor: Margaret Sullivan (HOW LONG WILL SHE LAST? BETTING POOL HERE?)

On the other hand, Margaret Sullivan, above, might prove a genius in her new slot as NYTimes public editor OMBUDSWOMAN, the first woman and first WHITE WOMAN ever to hold the job. She was a newspaper editor in Buffalo, one of only an estimated 30 newspaper editors in the city’s entire history! --

“One of them was Mark Twain, and one of them was me!” she once told a reporter. “It’s a great legacy.”