Perhaps it couldn’t have happened to a better man.
or a nicer paper: cop this for a piece of grotesque moralising:
“I’m also intensely proud of the people who run this newspaper,” wrote metro columnist John Kass. “Because they had the courage to do something painful to repair that trust.”
“Tribune journalists must,” noted an editorial, “under possible penalty of dismissal, abide by 12 pages of policies on ethics and business conduct.”
Oops, your link’s broken Andrew – is that Bob Greene you mean?
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/09/19/greene/index.html