Toby: Part II
Statesman draws first blood in Futrell fracas.
By Wells Dunbar, 10:25AM, Tue. Jul. 10, 2007
What do you think the Statesman's editorial boardroom looks like? I've always imagined it to be opulent, but lately I've envisioned it as something out of the Hostel franchise, likely with some floor drains to collect the blood and gristle once they're done.
Yesterday we marveled at how Arnold Garcia and company had "resisted piling on the original story with a hand-wringing editorial." Well this morning the other shoe fell, and hard.
The bloodletting is here. As my editor put it, "They spent as many words on Toby as The New York Times did Sunday on Iraq."
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