The Adjustment Bureau Wrote:
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> pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> [www.nytimes.com]-
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> bows-to-investors-and-splits-in-two.html?google_ed
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> > itors_picks=true&_r=0
> >
> > Firstly, this article reveals a typical bias
> > against industry with the reporters
> > characterization of roller bearing as
> unglamorous.
> > Secondy, you have an example of a responsible
> and
> > civic minded industrialist being undermined by
> > evil MBA types, seeking only to game the
> system.
> > There was a time in this country when Timken
> was
> > considered glamorous.
>
> The characterization of the manufacturing of
> rolling bearings as unglamorous, while
> unfortunate, is a very minor part of the article.
> I read the hard copy edition which filled more
> than two pages of the New York Times and felt it
> was well- researched, well-written and
> informative.
>
> An Internet search revealed that Fox News did not
> deem this to be newsworthy. That's the real bias.


No, it's not a minor part of the article when a reporter leads off a story with such a premise. My Mom was a journalism major, and she schooled me well in the wiles of the "craft."