Heath freeman’s view from the 34th floor – dfm workers

As a co-founder and now president

Photo by Lorraine Dusky. Throughout the film, the McKay and his team give increasing focus to a single goal, winning the race, and less and less time and thought to what they would like to accomplish should they win. Salaries of reporters, editors and photographers who once held our local governments accountable, chronicled the highs and lows of our student athletes and undertook civic campaigns to better our communities are now literally paying instead for some of the most incredibly questionable investments in the history of Wall Street.

Having served on negotiating committees, my hopes and sympathies are with those Guild negotiators. Their job is not an easy one. That should worry people beyond Pottstown, because the strategy of strip-mining newspaper jobs to generate cash for more bad investments is the same everywhere Digital First owns a newspaper. And they are certainly not interested in investing any of that profit back into the newspapers which are producing it.

We have owners who are very concerned about staying in the black and quite frankly that is their prerogative. Freeman had he come to the door after I knocked Friday. A housekeeper answered and I asked to see Mr. Freeman, what value do you place on local news? Bernie Lunzer, the president of my union, put his finger on it I think when he spoke to The American Prospect last December :.

Use it up, sell it, or just kill it. The profit is the product. It seems like there is little future in ownership by a company that considers its only product to be profit.