Dear Commons Community,

The Sunday morning talk shows were abuzz  with various politicos and pundits opining about various issues but perhaps the most provocative comment was uttered by David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine.   On ABC’s This Week, during a discussion of the plight of major newspapers and sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,  David Remnick stated:

“Michael Bloomberg “detests” the New York Times. “Mike Bloomberg is a great innovator, but I’ve have to say, I’ve heard straight from the horse’s mouth that he detests the New York Times… Mike Bloomberg thinks that the New York Times has an opinion page on the front page and he loathes it.”

“Now that may be the function of being covered day after day and having an ego —”

George Will, another panelist,  had the best comeback line:

“I can’t imagine that any New York mayor thought differently.”

You can view the entire panel discussion at:  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/david-remnick-bloomberg-detests-the-new-york-times/

Tony