EDITOR'S notebook

Burton: A White Knight Or a Corporate Raider?

If television network executives were planning to cast a reality show for the graphic arts industry, Bob Burton would surely be on my short list. He's quickly becoming our industry's version of the likes of T. Boone Pickens and Carl Icahn who, during the 1980s, dominated the news with their attempts to rest control of underperforming companies and oust existing management they considered inept. On the heels of the failed proxy fight to take over Creo Inc. that Burton launched last year, the former chief executive of World Color and Moore Corp. is now exerting his financial muscle in an unsolicited bid for a second company.