Jayson who? The NYT is hoping you'll have forgotten that guy's name by now, as it gets ready to effectively dismiss the position of public editor, which began in the Jayson Blair fallout with Dan Okrent leading the charge of headmaster.

When Barney Calame's two-year tenure expires in May, New York Times exec editor Bill Keller may or may not give the job to someone new. Because the whole breathing down Times staffers' necks is so 2004.

“Over the next couple of months, as Barney’s term enters the home stretch, I’ll be taking soundings from the staff, talking it over with the masthead, and consulting with Arthur,” meaning publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., wrote Bill Keller, The Times’ executive editor, in an e-mail to The Observer.

Naturally, everyone but Calame's assistant Joseph Plambeck is eager to hear that the jig is up — that there will be no more inches developed to chronicling what reporters are doing wrong. That, and Sulzberger & Co. can finally reclaim some editorial space to do some more preaching.