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1. This is a shocking report and it appears to be true: A check of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website right now shows no stories about Friday's protests or police brutality. The P-G has completely abdicated its responsibility to its community. Some background...
2. The P-G's aggressively pro-Trump owners, among many sins, fired an editorial cartoonist for his anti-POTUS cartoons and installed an executive editor who'd printed an editorial defending Trump on "shithole countries" on MLK Day washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
3. That's on top of terrible treatment of the unionized newsroom. Such antics are deplorable, but censoring important political news -- after yanking a black reporter off the protest story -- crosses a dangerous line. I've never seen anything like this. So...
4. ...I would implore community leaders and all those philanthropists out there who say they want to help: Please launch and fully fund a major news source for Pittsburgh that is NOT the Post-Gazette. Its owners have utterly failed its great journalists and their city.
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