Romenesko Letters
That's what Albany Times Union editorial writer
Jim McGrath says. "The idea that it was the union that kept [
Howell] Raines from assembling the sort of staff that would bring the excellence he envisioned to the New York Times is laughable," he writes. "No Guild contract prevents the firing of incompetents, not that I can imagine that many of 'em actually work at the Times. Guild contracts allow every sort of legitimate discipline imaginable." The union remarks are in the ex-NYT executive editor's Atlantic
piece.
