Ira Glass Doesn't Know or Care About Jill Abramson's Firing

And now for a completely different take on a story that anyone who's ever ingested a piece of media is expected to have an opinion on: New York asked This American Life host Ira Glass about Jill Abramson being fired from the New York Times, and he was like, "What? Who? Who cares?"
New York Times: Female Staffers Don’t Want “Special Treatment”
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is denying the “shallow and factually incorrect” allegations that the paper’s executive editor, Jill Abramson, was fired over her complaints that she was paid less than her male colleagues. Women at the Times, Sulzberger argues in a memo to Times staffers on Saturday,…
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In a staff memo obtained by The Huffington Post, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. addresses “misinformation” about executive editor Jill Abramson’s firing: “It is simply not true that Jill's compensation was significantly less than her predecessors.”
Ravi Somaiya and David Carr of the New York Times report that executive editor Jill Abramson’s departure was prompted, in part, by her attempt to recruit top Guardian editor Janine Gibson to serve alongside then-managing editor Dean Baquet without consulting Baquet himself.
New York Times Keeps Changing Story About Jill Abramson’s Salary
Was ousted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson paid less than her predecessor, Bill Keller, and other male colleagues who held lesser titles at the paper? The Times has several different answers.
Executive Editor Jill Abramson Is Out at The New York Times
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is stepping down, Politico reports. Dean Baquet, the paper’s managing editor, has been chosen to replace her. Abramson, a 17-year Times staffer, succeeded Bill Keller as executive editor in September 2011, becoming the first woman to do so. Her successor, Baquet, will be…
