Skapedroe
09-03-2005, 01:19
*Newsday is my local paper btw. But its very good to see journalists themselfs now speaking up against the evil thats subverting all the organs of power in America. Our country and world is under siege from this common enemy we must as a world unite against and crush
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has resigned from Newsday and has ripped the paper's parent company, the Tribune Company, for putting profit over quality journalism. The journalist, Laurie Garrett, sent her colleagues a blistering memo announcing that she is going to work full time at the Council on Foreign Relations. Garret wrote "All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations --- and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions." She went on to write, "This is terrible for democracy. I have been in 47 states of the USA since 9/11, and I can attest to the horrible impact the deterioration of journalism has had on the national psyche. I have found America a place of great and confused fearfulness." Garrett continues, "It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake."
democracynow.org
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has resigned from Newsday and has ripped the paper's parent company, the Tribune Company, for putting profit over quality journalism. The journalist, Laurie Garrett, sent her colleagues a blistering memo announcing that she is going to work full time at the Council on Foreign Relations. Garret wrote "All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations --- and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions." She went on to write, "This is terrible for democracy. I have been in 47 states of the USA since 9/11, and I can attest to the horrible impact the deterioration of journalism has had on the national psyche. I have found America a place of great and confused fearfulness." Garrett continues, "It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake."
democracynow.org