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Ford's Sept. Sales: Reuters Errs, While the Rarely Reported AFA Boycott Grows

By Tom Blumer | October 2, 2007 - 12:31

Here's what Reuters said about Ford's September US performance, compared to what Ford's PR release actually said:

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Oops.

Much more important, the saddest story almost never told by Old Media continues to play out.

As Proof of Its Effect Mounts, Ford and Old Media Continue to Ignore AFA's Boycott

By Tom Blumer | September 10, 2007 - 15:58

The deadline for talks between the United Auto Workers and the Formerly Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) theoretically looms on September 14.

No one has more at stake in a sweetheart deal than Ford, for reasons almost entirely of its own making.

Oh, the Dearborn-based company has the same daunting challenges as its other brethren at the bargaining table: a too-high cost structure, expensive retiree health-care costs, and a product line in need of serious work. That much is known.

What isn't as well-known, and rarely understood, is that Ford has embarked on a seven-year journey of uber-Politicial Correctness that now threatens to gut its core US vehicle business.