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Forbes' Flint Flogs LATimes' Neil


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In an article released today, Forbes.com's Jerry Flint tells it like it is and he sees it, in the GM vs. LA Times "pull-the-ads" controversy.

In this Hard hitting opinion piece Mr. Flint takes on the journalistic integrity of a former Pulitzer Prize winning writer.

Here is an excerpt from the article, if you wish to read the whole thing just CLICK HERE.

What really cooks my engine oil is your knocking of Bob Lutz. Do you really think that Wall Street would be happy to see Lutz fired? Wake up. Lutz is the only one at the top of GM who knows anything about cars and trucks. You don't like the designs of some of the new cars. Well, Bob Lutz doesn't, either, but it's the best he's been able to get, given the time constraints, designs locked in before he came to GM, the company's policy of reusing ancient platforms and GM's bureaucracy.