Our Paradoxical Press

Ed Gillespie, the former chairman of the RNC who also served as counselor to President George W. Bush writes:

I don’t know if the New York Times’s shoddy reporting is a result of its junk-bond status, or if the New York Times’s junk-bond status is a result of its shoddy reporting.

Which may explain why the labor unrest in this troubled sector of the economy seems greater than another troubled sector of the economy:

The Sun-Times group has filed for bankruptcy. I know a lot of journalists these days who are wishing they’d gone into something steady, like moving to Detroit and becoming an autoworkers.

(H/T: GR)