Romenesko

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For seven months, the Tribune-Review has run a daily feature attacking the CEO of Pennsylvania's largest bank for accepting $48 million in taxpayer support to help build a new downtown Pittsburgh skyscraper. An editorial page "has every right to philosophically disagree with public subsidies and take on that topic and write about it with vigor," says Maxwell King, president of The Heinz Endowments and the former Philadelphia Inquirer editor. "What I thought they did was turn a corner, taking it from a philosophical debate to an ad hominem attack against an individual."