Seth Borenstein’s Hatchet Job
Immediately after LM was awarded Orion this afternoon, I noticed quite a number of people on various blogs and discussion boards expressing disdain for the company. Seth Borenstein cranks the LM antipathy to 11.
The article appears under his byline on the Houston Chronicle site (three times, in fact, at the moment). CNN doesn’t carry the byline, but has a nice picture to illustrate it, extracted from decade-old archives, of Dan Goldin awarding the X-33 contract. What…they couldn’t be bothered to actually use something current? Indeed, as we shall see, X-33 is a recurrent theme in Borenstein’s hatchet job against LM.
In fairness, Borenstein may have also prepared an article on Boeing and Northrop Grumman to be published in the event they had won the contract, and it may have had the same relentlessly negative slant as well. However, the hit piece that did get published targets LM…so…let the fisking commence…
