When the heat is on, modern captains of industry never fail to take care of themselves at the expense of others, particularly the people they exhort to work harder, better, faster, smarter. Tribune execs are a shining and audacious example of what is wrong with contemporary American business. Tribune CEO Randy Michaels fears that he [...]

Looks like an L.A. Times pressman has been suspended for writing about events at the paper’s printing facility. There is a chance he will be fired, apparently. This sounds like shades of Denis Horgan’s experience at The Courant, only worse. I understand why a company might want to muzzle or punish an employee for revealing [...]