Fox News just had some B-roll of The New York Times composing room to illustrate the hatchet job the paper did on John McCain today. And they were pasting up the paper, just like in 1977! Using X-acto knives and paraffin-smeared photo paper. No wonder they’re having to lay off newsroom people.

Has the Times not heard of pagination? Do they understand that most newspapers go straight from computer to plate these days?

All I can figure is that the Times is at the mercy of typographer’s union thugs who insist they use the labor-intensive technology of 35 years ago.

Incredible.