News from Away
News: “McClatchy to shutter foreign bureaus.” —Poynter (10/12/2015)
“I fear
it is just a matter of time before newspapers will be considered the same as
any business, a fit prize for investment by interests that do not care about
the principles of good journalism.”
—C.K. McClatchy, newspaper editor/CEO,
in a Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture at the University of
California-Riverside, 2006 (Thanks to alert WORDster Bruce Adomeit)
• Editorial Comment: Ka-ching.
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