The new labor agreement with the Guild at the Times, you'll be glad to hear, won't turn over pension management to the Aqueduct casino. Bonus: Good thing we're talking about a Krugman-Dowd-Brooks-Cohen-Collins-Blow wannabe and not anyone who matters.
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But whatever the motivation behind it, the wager offer is a bad idea – giving ammunition to the critics who want to paint Mr. Silver as a partisan who is trying to sway the outcome.
It’s also inappropriate for a Times journalist, which is how Mr. Silver is seen by the public even though he’s not a regular staff member.
“I wouldn’t want to see it become newsroom practice,” said the associate managing editor for standards, Philip B. Corbett. He described Mr. Silver’s status as a blogger — something like a columnist — as a mitigating factor.
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Margaret Sullivan in the Times]