Thomas Crampton says:
I have a major personal and professional gripe against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.
For more than a decade, as you know, I enjoyed a wonderful and globe-trotting career at both newspapers. I would recommend anyone to work for these publications. You were a great employer, I had great colleagues and both publications are great to read.
That said, your normally web-savvy team just made one of the most boneheaded moves done by a major news website since the dawn of the Internet.