The Trouble with GM

By Paul Kedrosky · Monday, July 7, 2008 ·

Downbeat story in the WSJ & Reuters tonight on GM's plans for massive layoffs, etc. And not to diminish the awfulness of GM's plight -- okay, to diminish it a little -- I was struck by the story plopped adjacent to that story by a Reuters keyword algorithm. Check the first headline under "Related News":

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Gosh, how rough can it be for General Motors that people are now not just after it for its manufacturing plants, but even for the fields containing those plants?

Oh, wait ... GM. You mean that GM, not that GM. Ooooooh. I hate when that happens.

[via Reuters]