Anyone who reads this blog more than just coming in from a Search Engine or happening to follow a link in from another Blog; knows that on this Blog, I fight for the little guy. I fight for the middle class person that goes to work every day, punches a time clock, and simply goes to work to make a decent and meager living. I do this because it is my background, it is my World, and it is who I am as a person.
I read today that the company called Tribune Co. has filed for bankruptcy. This company owns the Los Angeles Times, Radio Station KTLA, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Cubs, and a few other businesses. I can only the imagine the stress that this has placed on all the employees of these companies, not just the writers, but all of the people involved in getting the news to the people of the respective areas.
What troubles me, is the reaction that I am seeing in the Blogosphere. Sorry people, there is nothing funny about not knowing if you will have a paycheck in the coming months or not. I really must say that I am highly disappointed to see my fellow Conservatives, as well as some decent and respectable Liberal Blogs making light of this fact.
The reason why this bothers me is this. First off, I consider these people that work for these papers as fellow writers. Second of all, is this here; you know, it is one thing to be a Blogger, to sit in your basement and get free hosting from a friend and sit here, day after day, firing off opinions of the politics of the day. However, when it is your livelihood, when you are feeding your family, when it is your career, when it is everything you have worked your entire life for, your existence; it is a completely different matter.
This is why I cannot help, but sit here and wonder aloud of how in the name of the Living God in Heaven that some right wing Republican Blogger or even a Democratic Liberal Blogger, even if it is a humor site; would have the abject chutzpah to mock another group of writers in a time of grim news. I would suppose that is what separates me from the Republicans and Democrats, or perhaps those Political junkies, who look at every piece of news, which happens to come around the vast expanse that we call the internet, through a distorted prism of politics.
In case, no one in the political world has figured this out yet. This has zero to do with politics, unless perhaps you are some moronic fascist, who thinks that all of the employees of this company deserve to be punished for a newspapers particular political editorial stance; In which case you probably should not even be using a computer, much less writing a blog. In case any of you forgotten, there are people that work for these companies that could frankly give two rips about politics or anything related to it.
In this time of economic turmoil, there is just no place for this sort of heartless idiocy. I just wish my fellow bloggers felt the same way.
Grandpa, what was “print media?”
Heh… Point taken… But geez, some people are really bad about it.