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.
Nothing more pleasant to watch than these idiots attacking themselves.
Watchdog journalism doesn't happen in the mainstream media. They just reprint the propoganda from the AP wire which rarely resembles journalism to begin with.
However, it warms my soul to see moveon.org using resources to go after newspaper companies that are seeing declining profits due to losing their monopoly on the news.
"Just sign the petition and we'll get the government to pay the salaries when we get a progressive President and congress."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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What do they think the Tribune Company is? NPR?
It is amusing, the people behind the reason for the firings, philosophically speaking, getting PO'd at the firings.
OH, that's a good one!
LVM
I'm sure these people use http://losangeles.craigslist.org/ and haven't used the LA Times classifieds in several years also.
"the Los Angeles Times from cutting 85 newsroom positions."
This is a good start. Now if the LAT would just cut ALL positions.
I think Savage's real name is Winer.
This is truly funny stuff!! Liberals go wild!! Obviously, they think they are ENTITLED to jobs, typical liberal thinking. They really don't understand why papers are losing readers and advertisers.
Maybe we should sign the petition?
;D <- evil grin
Red on red makes me feel all tingly inside.
They eat their young, they really do!
The chaos is increasing on the moonbat world.
When you're liberal, you get called that. But if you're conservative, you get called "extreme right wing" and such.
May I suggest the following Freeper petition?
We demand that all Trib writers and other Trib employees who have lost there jobs be hired by Wal-Mart.
Why doesn't George Soros just permanently put the staff of The Chicago
Tribune on a lifetime salary?
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