Truth to power

Jason Winders, former executive editor of the Athens Banner-Herald, with some not-so-glowing words for the (foolish) possibility of a newspaper bailout and Morris Communications ...

When reading this, I cannot help but to think back to my old company, Morris Communications, who like many other news organizations, decided to cut its employees’ pay earlier this year. (That included cutting the pay of people making less than $25,000 annually as well. Nice folks.)

Of course, unlike many other news organizations, mine decided to make the announcement at 8:30 p.m., requesting the story be put in the next day’s newspaper. Thus, hundreds of employees companywide discovered the news about their paycuts by reading them in the next morning’s newspaper.