Posted on 12/02/2005 2:08:36 PM PST by LdSentinal
NEW YORK The grassroots political group MoveOn.org has launched a national petition and e-mail drive to protest Tribune Co. job cuts at four large newspapers.
In the 24 hours following a letter sent Dec. 1 to MoveOn.org members in Southern California, more than 17,000 Los Angeles-area residents signed a petition to deter the Los Angeles Times from cutting 85 newsroom positions.
"By the time this is over, this is going to be one of our most in-depth campaigns on media issues," Adam Green, civic communications director at MoveOn.org Civic Action, told E&P. "Corporate owners know that the readers of their papers care about quality news but don't follow the intricate media issues. Part of our goal here is to really increase public awareness and send a strong signal."
In Orlando, according to the group, within 24 hours over 1,800 local residents signed a similar petition relating to 54 jobs cuts at the Orlando Sentinel. The group placed the number of local petition signers concerning the Chicago Tribune at 4,200 within 24 hours, and it said 2,400 signed the petition protesting cuts at The Sun in Baltimore.
At the same time, the group is urging members to send e-mails, which read in part: “As corporate owners in Chicago reap large profits from the [[name of paper]], there is no excuse for them to force our paper to abandon its responsibility to deliver strong watchdog journalism to the public.”
In the letter sent to MoveOn members, Noah T. Winer portrays the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, as a profit-hungry corporation using industry-wide newspaper trouble to hide its real reasons for job cuts.
"Despite reaping huge profits that most businesses would envy, The Times' corporate owners in Chicago simply aren't satisfied -- they want more," the letter reads. It also complains that these newsroom cuts will lead to "watered-down coverage."
"Politicians and corporations who should be held accountable by vigilant watchdog journalism will instead be covered by a staff that is stretched too thin," Winer writes.
The letter provides a link to the MoveOn.org petition site, which provides an easy-fill form to be sent to the Times and encourages members to forward the e-mail.
Is this from Scrappleface? Could these people be more inane?
This is good. Let MoveOn start attacking the major media outlets. Bite the hand that feeds them.
That was my first thought.
What can you expect from a guy named Winer.
What do they think the Tribune Company is? NPR?
Boy, there's just something so ironic about this. MoveOn wants to attack old liberal media, MoveOn's biggest supporter, because old liberal media has a PROFIT MOTIVE. Of course, MoveOn's never supported a winner, so they have no concept of a profit motive.
I would like to sign it. I enjoy watching the MSM go broke.
Hey, they can prod all their lefty recipients to buy 1/2 page ads with a big pair of lips. Come on boys!
MoveOn clearly does not understand ecomonics! What is it that making the paper profitable and keeping what jobs there are left doesn't get through to these people?
Moonbat.org could help the papers more by providing them with revenue. Don't they have some old "Bush is a Nazi" adds they could run?
I'll tell you why.........they're complainers, not doers. They should move to France where they can be paid to do absolutely nothing. And if they get frustrated, they can set cars on fire.
NEW YORK The grassroots political group MoveOn.org has launched a national petition and e-mail drive to protest Tribune Co. job cuts at four large newspapers.
We don't accept that leftist Dogma is the cause of failing
readership of Newspapers, and we want to force the Tribune to rehire Journalists with Socialist agendas!!!
Helloooo. Businesses are not charities. When they are losing money, they have two choices. They can either lay off people and close the least valuable of their current operations, or they can go out of business.
So, the loony left is asking for one if its major mouthpieces to commit economic suicide by hiring back people it cannot afford to keep on staff. If MoveOn was even aware of its own self interests, it would be petitioning FoxNews to hire so many people that it went out of business. LOL.
They've chosen the wrong target, and asked for the wrong action. They are a pack of maroons. But then, we knew that.
Congressman Billybob
This protest would end by lunch tomorrow if the signers of the petitions were required to fully subsidize the continued salaries of those laid off.
But that would cost them money. Signing a petition doesn't cost anything except a few dots of ink or a few key strokes. You don't expect liberals to really put their money where their mouth is, do you?
What? Are they afraid they will lose some of the Bush bashing journalists?
So they want to kill their own golden goose for not laying enough eggs? I'd say, "Go for it moveon! LOL!!
Guess we all know who the people at the Tribune works for....any suprise to anyone????
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