Thursday, May 11, 2006
AND THE MOHAMED ATTA PRIZE GOES TO ...
In a staff memo celebrating a recent media award, Time editor-in-chief John Huey singled out for praise departing managing editor Jim Kelly:
IT IS A FITTING TRIBUTE TO A MAN WHO WAS SITTING IN THE PILOT’S SEAT AT TIME ON THE MORNING OF 9/11/01, AND HASN’T MADE A MISSTEP SINCE.
Unlike, say, his editor-in-chief. Huey has obviously studied at New York’s famed Sulzberger Tin-Eared Metaphor Academy.