"Oh Jerry, It's No Longer Your Baby." Ouch! That's the headline accompanying a scathing open letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang that ran in the New York Times this weekend. Word is that it's caused shockwaves to ripple throughout Yahoo, with speculation abounding over Yang's fate. As TechCrunch puts it:

"When blogs and regional newspapers trash Jerry Yang it's one thing. But when the New York Times does it, people really notice. Public lynchings like this are few and far between from that bastion of traditional journalism."

And the piece is damning, to say the least. It catalogues Yang's offenses and mismanagement, which reporter Joe Nocera says include him knowingly screwing shareholders—even though it's the shareholders who made him a billionaire—and effectively dampening Yahoo's future earnings potential.

Nocera wraps ups the article by betting on Yang's fate at Yahoo: "I would be taking odds that your days as Yahoo's C.E.O. are numbered. It'll be better for everyone to have someone in that role who understands who he's supposed to be working for. Wouldn't you agree?"

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This brings us round to this week's survey question: should Yang step down as Yahoo's CEO? For extra credit, give us your take on what you think may be in store for Yahoo, post its failed Microsoft deal and its new partnership with Google.