John Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times, said anyone
working in management at the Detroit papers was bound to butt heads with
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labor.
"Giles has a sterling reputation among editors as a strong journalist and as a wonderful person," Carroll said.
Giles is a career Gannett executive but that does not preclude him from being a fine journalist, some say.
"He's certainly a creature of a Gannett system," said Newsweek contributing editor Ellis Cose. "But they do actually create some people who are very good."
"In Detroit he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's becomes a question of whether you hold that against him or not," he said.
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