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In light of today's announcement from the newly created NOLA Media Group, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to this 2008 column by the American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder, slamming the dishonest language of newspaper layoff press releases, which often appear as a "news item" in the business pages.


<blockquote>Inevitably, the publisher accompanies news of the bloodletting with the solemn declaration that the cutbacks in no way suggest that the paper is backing off from its commitment to world-class public service journalism.? [ Read more ]

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