Guild & CWA Call on Tribune to Protect Newspapers' Integrity
Wednesday, May 1, 2013(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.”