Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Working Class Chic

Dan Proft on the decline of the Sun Times (recall their new editorial policy, la Hunter):
And who's bringing working class chic back to the Sun-Times?

Enter Cyrus Freidheim.

Cyrus Freidheim, the CEO of the Sun-Times Media Group, is the subject of a grand jury probe and 173 wrongful death suits related to his previous tenure as CEO of Chiquita Brands International during which some $1.7 million in payments were made by the banana-producer to a U.S. State Department-designated terrorist group in Colombia.
Full text here.

The Sun Times also has lost the brilliant columnist Mark Steyn, (most recent post linking Steyn), writing now at the Orange County Register.

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