I desperately wish my hometown had a world-class newspaper, but as long as Knight Ridder owns the franchise, smart money says it’s not going to happen. Accordingly, I stopped reading the daily years ago. Here’s a perfect example why. I would quote the money graf, but I find it too despicable.
I had a whole rant worked out, but Charles Laszewski, one of the three Pioneer Press writers worth reading, did it far better in an open letter on Romenesko’s non-blog blog:
“With your column, you have spat on the copy of the brave men and women who are doing their best in terrible conditions. More than 20 reporters have died in Iraq from around the world. You have insulted them and demeaned them, and to a much lesser degree, demeaned the reporters everywhere who have been threatened with bodily harm, who have been screamed at, or denied public records, just because they wanted to present the closest approximation to the truth they could.
“I am embarrassed to call you my colleague.”
0 responses. Comments closed for this article.