Pawlick Resigns as Publisher of Massachusetts News

Will Continue Nationwide Promotion of Book Revealing Agenda of New York Times

            J. Edward Pawlick resigned today as Publisher of Massachusetts News in order to devote his full attention to the nationwide promotion of his book, “Libel by New York Times,” which reveals the agenda of the New York newspaper.

            “When I founded MassNews five years ago, I had no idea I would immediately be attacked by the most famous newspaper in the world. But the Sulzberger family had just installed a new Chairman, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., (known as Pinch) to replace his father, who was my age (and known as Punch).

            “I had never heard of the Sulzbergers and it was several years before I realized this was a personal thing with young Sulzberger and he was out to destroy me.

            After what developed last year when, in desperation, Pinch had his columnist write the most prominent story on the front page of the Business section of the Globe on April 14, 2004, telling all the lawyers in Massachusetts to stop buying “Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly,” it became obvious to everyone that Pinch was under serious psychological pressure.

            “Since I founded Lawyers Weekly in 1972 in my home in Weston and then sold it to my daughter 25 years later in 1997, my legal newspapers across the country had given me a reputation as a person of unquestioned integrity and competence. I had no idea that the Chairman of the mammoth conglomerate, ‘The New York Times Company,’ would soon be engaging me and my wife in battle.”

            But he did, relates Pawlick, as Pinch attacked Pawlick’s wife, Sally, with 16 libelous statements in the Times and Globe because she founded Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage in 2000 in order to prevent the civil unions of Vermont from penetrating Massachusetts.

            “I didn’t realize I was stepping into a fight between Pinch and his father, Punch, about homosexuality,” Pawlick relates. “Punch was something of a homophobe because his mother, the only child of the modern founder of the Times, Adolph Ochs (who bought the paper in 1896) would allow nothing to be printed about the subject. He almost did not appoint his son as Chairman because of the conflict.

            “But Pinch had an obsession to correct the homophobia of all his ancestors and began immediately with editorials in the Times endorsing homosexual ‘marriage.’ I had no idea of the inner machinations of this powerful family or that they even existed.

            “But I soon found out that something strange was going on as Pinch immediately sought to get me out of the way. I had hoped until this year that smarter heads at the Times would dismiss Pinch this year, but that does not appear to be happening yet, and it appears as though the only ambition of the family is to replace Bill Gates as the richest family in the country.

            “That is sad to see,” Atty. Pawlick related.

            Pawlick said that the appointment of an Acting Publisher will be announced tomorrow.