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What am I missing here about Jill Abramson’s firing as executive editor of the New York Times?<\/p>\n

I keep coming back to the threshold question: Was she doing the job or wasn’t she?<\/p>\n

The NYT’s brain trust said she wasn’t, so they let her go.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/05\/jill-abramson-wake-forest-graduation-nytimes-new-york-times-firing-106824.html?hp=t1<\/p>\n

I saw commentators over the weekend suggest that Abramson was being held to a different standard because she’s a woman. Really? I’ve always adhered to the policy that if you’re doing what your bosses want, then you’re in the clear. If not, then you get whacked. Pure and simple. I don’t understand the double standard argument. Someone will have to help me out.<\/p>\n

One more quick point.<\/p>\n

Salary reportedly has become an issue of public discussion. I have no idea what Abramson earned as executive editor, or whether it equaled what her immediate predecessor, Bill Keller, earned.<\/p>\n

Back when I was working full time as a journalist, I always was instructed that my salary was privileged information, to be known only by myself, my immediate supervisors and the person in charge of cutting the checks every pay period. I followed that policy to the letter during my more than three decades in daily journalism. I never told anyone my salary, nor did I ever ask anyone what they earned.<\/p>\n

There were times over the years when I more or less put two-and-two together to presume what someone was earning, but I never — not a single time — discussed it openly.<\/p>\n

Abramson got canned. As the sanitized version of the saying goes: Stuff happens.<\/p>\n\n

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