MoveOn.org Launches Petition Site to Protest Tribune Job Cuts

Editor & Publisher ^ | 12/2/05 | Miki Johnson

[LdSentinal]

What liberal media . . .

[Dems_R_Losers]

Is this from Scrappleface? Could these people be more inane?

[GoBucks2002]

This is good. Let MoveOn start attacking the major media outlets. Bite the hand that feeds them.

[MarkeyD]

That was my first thought.

[Rebelbase]

"By the time this is over, this is going to be one of our most in-depth campaigns on media issues,"

For that to happen Dan Rather would have to come out of retirement and do an evening news story using phony documents implicating the Tribune companies in some type of schenanigans.

[writmeister]

What can you expect from a guy named Winer.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

What do they think the Tribune Company is? NPR?

[hsalaw]

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.

[quantim]

I would like to sign it. I enjoy watching the MSM go broke.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

Hey, they can prod all their lefty recipients to buy 1/2 page ads with a big pair of lips. Come on boys!

[Sunshine Sister]

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?

[Stultis]

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?

[cchandler]

They're like the French citizens. There is no market/revenue to support all of the jobs, and in response, MoveOn demands that people stop being fired. If these MoveOn MorOns had any inclination to do something besides complain, they might suggest that all of their members buy subscriptions to Tribune pubs rather than sign a piece of paper. Better yet, why don't they organize the laid off reporters, then incorporate (with their own money), and form a new news company?

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.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Good, the barracudas are eating each other.

Had to happen sometime with those vile loonies.

[LtKerst]

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!!!

[Congressman Billybob]

I, too, read the lede on this article and immediately checked to see whether it was from the Onion, or Scrappleface. What better illustrates the economic idiocy of the hard left, including MoveOn.org, that they are protesting against the Tribune newspapers for cutting jobs.

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

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[T. Rustin Noone]

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.

[Tamar1973]

If these MoveOn MorOns had any inclination to do something besides complain, they might suggest that all of their members buy subscriptions to Tribune pubs rather than sign a piece of paper.

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?

[GloriaJane]

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!!

[HarleyLady27]

Guess we all know who the people at the Tribune works for....any suprise to anyone????