The End of the Affair*
The final chapter in that LATimes editor killing an Armenian Genocide story flap from April that got all the Armenian American activists out of the woodwork to denouce the paper -- LAObserved reports that Times Managing Editor Doug Frantz, who spiked Times scribe (and Armenian American) Mark Arax's genocide story, has resigned.
Apparently, the now-former Number Two in the Times newsroom was expected to walk even before all the ruckus started a few months back. When the flap was at its worst, critics were branding Frantz (once a correspondent in Turkey) and his paper with the "D" word -- denailist -- as in "I deny the Armenian Genocide ever happened, which makes me a denialist."
*Update 4:49 p.m. -- Frantz is heading back to Istanbul as the Wall Street Journal's Middle East bureau chief. LAObserved