In the line of fire
This is to my brethren (and sistren, to be politically correct) in the news business.
Day after day, they have to fight the influence of car dealers who don't like political cartoons on the Opinion Page such as the one with the XX-sized SUV that is totaled because it ran out of gas. These dealers threaten to pull their own ads and organize a general car dealer boycott. This kind of thing happenes at newspapers regularly.
This is to those reporters and editors who have been kicked around by publishers who are so cozy with the advertising directors (they bring in the money!)that it clouds their judgment on the news end of things.
This is, most of all, for the journalists who stick their necks out, week after week, waking from nightmares that their house will be burned. And for those living with fears that they will be fired because their work, though fair and just, pisses off the influential people who'd rather see a dumbed down newspaper with nothing of controversy inside. To hell wioth the people's right to know.
This is for the people who support those journalists, even when they struggle to find that support in their own organizations.
This is by a journalist who is growing very weary of this fight.
Day after day, they have to fight the influence of car dealers who don't like political cartoons on the Opinion Page such as the one with the XX-sized SUV that is totaled because it ran out of gas. These dealers threaten to pull their own ads and organize a general car dealer boycott. This kind of thing happenes at newspapers regularly.
This is to those reporters and editors who have been kicked around by publishers who are so cozy with the advertising directors (they bring in the money!)that it clouds their judgment on the news end of things.
This is, most of all, for the journalists who stick their necks out, week after week, waking from nightmares that their house will be burned. And for those living with fears that they will be fired because their work, though fair and just, pisses off the influential people who'd rather see a dumbed down newspaper with nothing of controversy inside. To hell wioth the people's right to know.
This is for the people who support those journalists, even when they struggle to find that support in their own organizations.
This is by a journalist who is growing very weary of this fight.
posted by Mountain Laureate at 1:21 PM
3 Comments:
Hang in there, ML. Look what Poor Richard accomplished.
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I hear ya, sister. It once made me angry. Now it makes me sad.
Remember this line?: I didn't sell out; I bought in.
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