“They are active political proponents of harsh right-wing positions”
The Newspaper Guild & Communications Workers of America Call on
Tribune Company to Protect Newspapers’ Integrity as Sale Proceeds
Recently you’ve seen many petitions asking that the Koch brothers not be allowed to buy the Tribune Company’s newspapers. We understand why the Kochs breed this distrust. They are active political proponents of harsh right-wing positions. We’re also not certain that Tribune will listen to anything but money when the final decision is made.
What we do know is that great papers publish credible, trusted journalism online and on the printed page. Whoever comes to own these mastheads needs to understand that protecting newsrooms from ideological taint is no small thing. The future of American journalism depends on the ability to print truth, not opinion.
We call on Tribune to make a pledge that they’ll only sell to a buyer that will protect the objectivity of the news product by making a public commitment to doing so. The Newspaper Guild-CWA and the Communications Workers of America seek your support in this goal.
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“On another note, we’re not giving back anything to any employer, we won’t accept layoffs and demand that the new owner of the Times keep every job and every penny of benefits.”
Just kidding. The latter part would at least be advocating for its members.
HitNRun on April 30, 2013 at 10:05 PM
Intolerance for ‘Tolerance’s’ sake.
Resist We Much on April 30, 2013 at 10:07 PM
Why does the CWA hate Big Bird?
HICON on April 30, 2013 at 10:08 PM
We’ve got to protect our phony baloney jobs!
-LA Times writer channeling WM J Lapetomé
rihar on April 30, 2013 at 10:08 PM
They’re rather effectively exposing themselves. Not that it’s not obvious.
wte9 on April 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM
I’m sure we can count on the cwa to save us from that whole scary ‘freedom of the press’ stuff.
Lost in Jersey on April 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
John the Libertarian on April 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Do they really think that the lat is currently an objective media source our is this just cynical grandstanding? They really are in full freakout though. Between the Koch bros and Ted Cruz, it’s hard to tell whom they fear more.
crrr6 on April 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Such as gay marriage.
Liberals are so earnest in their hysteria.
Bishop on April 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Right Wing? Please… they’re just classical liberals…
Now, this guy is right wing….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Ludovici
ninjapirate on April 30, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Try repeating that, a hundred times a day, hypocrites!
OldEnglish on April 30, 2013 at 10:18 PM
Has irony been removed from the style book ?
elgeneralisimo on April 30, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Just not the former owners, right?
What would they think of our distrust of media? “Crazy right-wing ‘liberal media’ conspiracy kooks!!”
Distrust only means something if liberals distrust it, we Tea Party are practically anarchists–something I understand from the Senate Leader.
Axeman on April 30, 2013 at 10:23 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (Deep breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
fight like a girl on April 30, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Rush is right. They will always tell you who or what they fear.
trigon on April 30, 2013 at 10:29 PM
On Monday, Robin Abcarian of the LAT, once again, called Palin a ‘quitter.’
What shall we call her her friends if they QUIT?
Resist We Much on April 30, 2013 at 10:29 PM
Can’t stop laughing. This was satirical, right?
fight like a girl on April 30, 2013 at 10:32 PM
These are like kids learning for the first time there could be chaperons at the prom.
BKeyser on April 30, 2013 at 10:32 PM
The government of Qatar – a monarchical dictatorship – buys through Al Jazeera a cable channel to broadcast its product and there’s silence. Not a peep of concern about objectivity and independence from the liberal/left.
But if the Kochs buy a newspaper? Outrage.
SteveMG on April 30, 2013 at 10:33 PM
LOL…the liberals currently running these mastheads have already moved from ideological taint to ideological brown-eye.
HumpBot Salvation on April 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Is this from the Onion?
Tim Zank on April 30, 2013 at 10:46 PM
I’m still trying to get over the use of the word “integrity” in reference to the Los Angeles Times.
applebutter on April 30, 2013 at 10:51 PM
Since you pretty much have to be a full-on tone-deaf intolerant, pampered, cocooned liberal freak to think or say this in the first place given the near-total lack of viewpoint diversity at every major paper in the country, I give this whiny self-absorbed bullshit exactly one-half seconds thought.
Sacramento on April 30, 2013 at 11:01 PM
The Obama Era has brought us many things. One of which is that reality and Onion pieces are pretty much interchangeable now. Unhinged Lefties galore.
visions on April 30, 2013 at 11:12 PM
I’ll try to use it in a sentence, maybe that will help…
“The Los Angeles Times has enough structural integrity to briefly protect one’s head from the rain during the rare instances when the Los Angeles area receives precipitation.”
That’s about the only use of the word that applies.
malclave on April 30, 2013 at 11:22 PM
Romenesko is an azzclown. His whiny contributors are worse.
Is anyone aware that the Kochs are libertarians, not conservatives? They do not hold “right wing” political opinions because they are not of the right wing.
The notion that the LA Times and Chicago Tribune are created with even the vaguest nod to “credible, trusted journalism” is hilarious. Both publications are products of a closed-minded liberal cast.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Jaibones on May 1, 2013 at 12:31 AM
Pull the other one.
Um, what does the history of journalism show?
Difficultas_Est_Imperium on May 1, 2013 at 12:50 AM
Not particularly self aware there, are they?
Count to 10 on May 1, 2013 at 6:46 AM
This paragraph is missing a laugh track.
PerceptorII on May 1, 2013 at 7:10 AM
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Paul-Cincy on May 1, 2013 at 7:16 AM
Freedom of the press and association for we, but not for thee.
Yeah.
NotCoach on May 1, 2013 at 7:36 AM
Freedom’s a b*tch, eh Romenesko?
petefrt on May 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM
Heh, right on.
roy_batty on May 1, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Earnestness meets pearl-clutching panic, beyootifull!
roy_batty on May 1, 2013 at 8:38 AM
I was going to ask if anyone else busted out laughing at that part.
Odysseus on May 1, 2013 at 8:38 AM
I often wonder how lefties actually make it through the day. Pretty sure I’d fall down a lot if my brain was dealing with such overwhelming amounts of cognitive dissonance.
Chris of Rights on May 1, 2013 at 8:54 AM
That does it. The Koch bros have GOT to buy the Tribune company.
cicerone on May 1, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Huh?
hillbillyjim on May 1, 2013 at 9:12 AM