As you’ve seen, this morning on Morning Joe, The New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin suggested
that few if any unionized companies are successful and profitable — a demonstrably false claim. And David Kurtz and our news team are on the case, reporting the story out and compiling a list of companies that belie this claim.
Now, it’s no secret to you that TPM has an editorial outlook that is broadly sympathetic to the union movement. But what strikes me about this comment is that it’s not some random chat show yakker like Hannity or Scarborough. This is one of the Times top business reporters. He runs their markets and finance blog — Dealbook, which is actually quite good and a sign, I think, that the Times is very much in the new media, iterative journalism chase. So quite apart from the politics of it, this is just a jarring level of ignorance about corporate America from someone in that position.
