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Bashman watches the setting Sun

By Mark Obbie

How Appealing's Howard Bashman gets wistful over the loss of The New York Sun -- specifically over his admiration for two law-beat reporters, Josh Gerstein and Joseph Goldstein. I, too, have noticed the little paper's ambitious, national legal coverage, and have had it on my to-do list to do enough research of the archives that I could come to some sort of conclusion about the quality of that coverage. I waited too long. But, as a parting gift, I'll my off-the-cuff verdict: that it was good, and enterprising. And it will be missed -- at a time when not even The New York Times has seen fit to fill a vacancy in its legal-affairs beat.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).