Poynter Online
After paying $100 million for the Santa Barbara News-Press,
Wendy McCaw can call the shots, "but if you feel strongly, as I do, that being a journalist is a great gift, then no one -- owners, publishers, editors, reporters, visual journalists, none of us -- has the right to mess it up," writes
Gregory Favre. "Not even $100 million earns you that right. And playing loose with our values is messy. Readers in Santa Barbara deserve better." | Related from the
Santa Barbara Independent and
Lompoc Record.
