Hasta La Creative!

Yesterday, as NYTimes.com — and much of the rest of the webby media establishment — was buzzing about the announcement that Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post, the print edition of The New York Times was still serving up a rather sour tale about the Amazon founder-CEO's legacy as an entrepreneur. Spread across the top of the front page of the Times' business section, a story titled "In Germany, Union Culture Clashes With Amazon's Labor Practices," by Nick Wingfield and Melissa Eddy, began,

In the United States, technology giants like Amazon are often celebrated as fonts of innovation and jobs. But across the Atlantic — nein, non, no.

Wingfield and Eddy report that Amazon has lately been subject to strikes at its warehouses in Germany, its second-biggest market, and that the company is under fire for importing "American-style business practices — in particular, an antipathy to organized labor — that stand at odds with European norms."

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