Does New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson Hate Manhattan?
Now, you might say we’re projecting here when we wonder whether Times managing editor Jill Abramson hates Manhattan, but we’re only connecting the dots laid out to us by Abramson herself. In her latest column about her yellow Lab puppy, Scout, we see the city though the young dog’s eyes. Scout, being used to the suburbs where Abramson lives most of the time, doesn’t like it one bit. The “street noise rattled her,” she had “a very hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep,” she “was confused about what was outside and what was inside,” and “older dogs spurned her.” Eventually, in her column, Abramson came to a revelation: By the last day of her more recent visit, I realized that Scout’s being a bit out of sorts in Manhattan may have had a lot to do with my being tense. I was consumed with guilt, certain that she was much happier in the country than in the city and not able to get the same level of exercise in the city, even though I was taking her on long walks and allowing her to r
