The Problem: Publishers Have to Protect Their Businesses

VOICES- Re ‘What the Port of LA Won’t Tell You’ … You tell readers: “remember the courage of those who speak truth to power in journalism, they too are defenders of our democracy." 

Of course, but in the Gary Webb case you cite the problem was not readers of newspapers but the publishers of newspapers. 

These publishers have to protect their businesses and too much investigative reporting is a business risk for papers dependent on the government, as all of them are. 

(Chad Brown lives in Los Angeles.)

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CityWatch

Vol 12 Issue 86

Pub: Oct 24, 2014