Troubled Times

American’s flagship newspaper is a sinking ship. So says journalist Mark Bowden, who writes about the paper’s fifth-generation publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Junior, in the new issue of Vanity Fair Magazine. The article is timely because the New York Times is playing hardball, threatening to close the Boston Globe unless the paper's unions agree to 20-million-dollars in cuts.


Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now, April 9th. Host: Deborah Becker.