Detroit Newspaper Kills Negative Book Review Of One Of Its Own

The Detroit Free Press has killed a review it had commissioned of a book by Mitch Albom, the newspaper’s star sports columnist, because the review came in negative. The paper’s executive editor “confirmed that she decided not to run the review by freelance writer Carlo Wolff simply because the reviewer didn’t much like the book. She said Albom was not involved in the decision. The book is titled ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven.’ ‘I was not really comfortable with disparaging one of my employees that way. Yes, it’s because the review was negative’.”