The Daily Open Thread for 6/3/09: The Latest Embarrassment For The New York Times (Updated w/Sorkin Apology)
A world class train wreck if there ever was: Now, it's already embarrassing for MSNBC's dummies in the morning (along with the already discredited and Jon Stewart whipping by Cramer) not knowing that the company who gives them their paycheck, GE, is a successful unionized company. Even worse however is the buffon that is the New York Times Andrew Sorkin not knowing this. Sorkin is supposed to be of the paper's TOP BUSINESS WRITERS. I had to put that in caps, because it just shows how the Times have diminished over the years, how this idiot is the top business writer. Josh Marshall tells more : But what strikes me about this comment is that it's not some random chat show yakker like Hannity or Scarborough. This is one of the Times top business reporters. He runs their markets and finance blog -- Dealbook , which is actually quite good and a sign, I think, that the Times is very much in the new media, iterative journalism chase. So quite apart from the politics of it, th...