Progressive columnist Jim Hightower's latest column criticized corporations hurting journalism for the sake of shareholders and singled out Digital First Media and GateHouse Media as the worst offenders, calling them "hedge-fund scavengers" and "ruthless Wall Street profiteers out to grab big bucks fast" at the expense of the papers.
Hightower paid the price when his distributor, Creators Syndicate, refused to place his column in any publications out of fear of retribution from Digital First and GateHouse. Creators Managing Editor Simone Slykhous defended the move in an email saying they only wanted to protect Hightower, according to the editorial staff of The Texas Observer in Austin. Hightower's assistant derided the decision, saying that Creators didn't want to anger their powerful customers.
The Observer's editorial staff decided to run Hightower's column in full, saying "He's angering all the right people." Read it here; it's a scorcher.
from The Rural Blog https://ift.tt/2QTnLML Creators Syndicate refuses to run column calling out 'hedge-fund scavengers' in journalism; Texas Observer prints it - Entrepreneur Generations
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