Article: ET TU, SENATOR BRUNO? THE ISSUE HE LASHES OUT AT THE MEDIA AND SUGGESTS TIMES UNION EDITORS BE SHOT. OUR OPINION KILLING THE MESSENGER WON'T ALTER THE MESSAGE.(MAIN)

The estimable New York State Senator from Brunswick, Joseph Bruno, told our reporter Sunday that ``Your editors ought to be shot.''

That fate, which as of presstime had not yet come to pass, was evidently warranted, in the senator's mind, by the reporting the Times Union had done in recent weeks on the matter of the firing of state workers and the prospective layoffs of many more. Specifically, this newspaper reported what it had learned from the Pataki administration and from other state officials.

The firings already ordered, together with the firings and layoffs that may yet come, have quite predictably given rise to a great deal of anxiety, as ...

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