The Son Also Rises

The publisher's son gets a desk in the New York Times cubicle body farm. Pinch Jr., 28, has the genes, means, and is not green. NYO Pinch will write for the Times' website.

You be the judge. Here's a piece young Arthur penned for The Oregonian. Arthur, duly completing his apprenticeships at The Oregonian and the Providence Journal, is being groomed to succeed Pinch Sr.

By that time the Gray Lady may be speaking Spanich now that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has bailed out the financially troubled newspaper.