Guild & CWA Call on Tribune to Protect Newspapers' Integrity

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Noting that “Recently you’ve seen many petitions asking that the Koch brothers not be allowed to buy the Tribune Company’s newspapers,” the Newspaper Guild and CWA yesterday instead called on the 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.” Whoever winds up buying the newspapers “needs to understand that protecting newsrooms from ideological taint is no small thing,” the Guild and CWA added. “The future of American journalism depends on the ability to print truth, not opinion.”