"New York" magazine reported that executive editor Jill Abramson "put on a full-court press" to keep Silver at "The Times" and that "for Abramson, Silver was a tentpole attraction for her favorite subject, national politics, and brought the kind of buzz she thought valuable", but the company's CEO and President Mark Thompson "confirmed that keeping Silver was not at the top of his agenda".The article stated that "the major reason Silver left was because he felt it was Thompson who had not committed to building his franchise.