WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005
New West
Jonathan Weber doesn't buy MoveOn's claim that cutting newspaper jobs is unacceptable because it undermines the "watchdog" function of the press. "That argument is offbase for a number of reasons, and it's also rather offensive to the many journalists who don't happen to work at big, fat, six-figure-salary and benefit-paying corporations that long ago lost touch with their readership," he writes. "I think strong, well-funded journalism is a good thing, both for journalists and for society. But to a journalism entrepreneur it's pretty hard to swallow the idea that it's grave threat to the world as we know it when a newspaper like the LA Times, with an editorial staff of nearly
a thousand people decides it has to do with a few less."
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