NY Times BlogWatch: The Beat Doesn’t Go On

Promises, promises.
The NY Times‘ new culture blog has remained dormant since Monday. I think they need to change their promotional slogan: “ArtsBeat is all culture, all the time.”
I suggest: “ArtsBeat is popular music, once in a while.”
But speaking of follow-through on promises, I’m glad the Times has decided to keep the gadfly position of public editor, which began in 2003. Clark Hoyt, former Washington editor for Knight Ridder, has been named to succeed Byron Calame, for a two-year stint effective May 14.
I sometimes feared that the Keller-baiting Calame might have undermined the resolve of the newspaper’s executive editor to put up with the irritant of this very public internal critique.