It is my sixth @nytimes anniversary today. I read "The Night of the Gun" just before I started here and I think about this passage from David Carr (whom I so wish was still here to help us understand it all) pretty often:

"That basic newspapering stuff was not lost on me. The baked-in folkways of The New York Times have made most people who ever worked there, including me, better than they were. Imagine working in a place where everybody — the dour middle manager ...

"... the fresh-faced gunner down the hall, the big cheese who walks by every once in awhile — is trying to make it better. Even when they are stapling you to a wall, or pointing out an error in your work ...

"... or changing it fundamentally after you thought you were finished, they are trying to make it better."

This has been my experience, for better. I& #39;m thankful all the time.