Gary Pruitt, chairman and CEO of the McClatchy Company, has an opinion piece in today's WSJ called Brave News World that included this howler:
People in the newspaper industry have got a lot riding on this -- our jobs and reputations, for starters; but the stakes for society are far higher. Self-government depends on continuous civic conversation, which in turn depends on people having a common vocabulary. Without a shared sense of what the problems are, there's little hope of finding solutions. That shared middle -- a place where people basically agree about the facts and the issues, even if they differ over what to do about them -- is where we believe our responsibilities as newspaper owners lie. And it is under assault by spinmeisters, partisans and ideologues. They all have their place in a democracy -- but it is not in the center. Our place is.
Um...Mr. Pruitt? You own this newspaper called the Minneapolis Star Tribune? Remember?
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