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Zombielander (not verified) says:
A couple of things:
One, Bowden's vaguely anti-Simon article in The Atlantic rues that Simon wouldn't trust Bowden on a story he was working on, then raised hell about it. Well, as an old Baltimore hack, I can recall that many in the News Union of Baltimore, the collective bargainer for wretches at the late but not necessarily lamented Baltimore News-American, didn't trust Bowden, either. As the oldsters related it at the time: During one session, Bowden the union negotiator walked out with no improvements in an agreement, but with a new column for himself. He didn't last in Baltimore much longer. He was hardly loved by his colleagues. (Granted, this was 30 years ago.) So maybe Simon merely thought he smelled a rat.
And: The foreign bureaus/local reporting duo isn't an either/or thing. The Sun sucked at local coverage while it bled its newshole of original reportage dry. Marimow/Carroll/Franklin have been/are amazingly consistent in their ineptitude.
A couple of things:
One, Bowden's vaguely anti-Simon article in The Atlantic rues that Simon wouldn't trust Bowden on a story he was working on, then raised hell about it. Well, as an old Baltimore hack, I can recall that many in the News Union of Baltimore, the collective bargainer for wretches at the late but not necessarily lamented Baltimore News-American, didn't trust Bowden, either. As the oldsters related it at the time: During one session, Bowden the union negotiator walked out with no improvements in an agreement, but with a new column for himself. He didn't last in Baltimore much longer. He was hardly loved by his colleagues. (Granted, this was 30 years ago.) So maybe Simon merely thought he smelled a rat.
And: The foreign bureaus/local reporting duo isn't an either/or thing. The Sun sucked at local coverage while it bled its newshole of original reportage dry. Marimow/Carroll/Franklin have been/are amazingly consistent in their ineptitude.