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Newsweek in turmoil as top editorial staff sacked

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By NICHOLAS KAMM

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I guess that freedom of the press sometimes means suppressing unflattering news about yourself or your owners. Very sad. I hope that they can break the news on an alternate news site. This just isn't right.

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Freedom of the press is meant to protect against government abuses. Freedom of the press doesn't mean they are free to write anything about their employer they wish. That's a fairly common thing for employers to demand.

If the employees wanted to do that, then doing some freelance writing or starting an unaffiliated blog would have been smarter.

Other journalists HAVE made the jump from corporate job to personal blog successfully. A Washington Post writer did that a while ago.

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Cooper said he was resigning but questioned whether that was moot "since the staff has been sent home and the magazine, for all we know, doesn’t exist."

He added, "Leaving aside the police raid and the harassment scandal, it’s the installation of editors, not Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness, that leaves me most despondent."

The print media is all but dead. 24/7 access to the internet is killing it.

Four year veteran reporter Matthew Cooper says, "it’s the installation of editors, not Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, and retweets over fairness, that left him more despondent than the police raid and the harassment scandal.

It seems that Newsweek has been rotting on the inside for quite some time.

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News, of the real and honest kind, does not mix well with religion and the latter interests involved. The leadership of IBT/Newsweek is digging or has already dug its own grave.

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