Battle engaged in Colorado
by Jerome Armstrong, Mon Nov 05, 2007 at 06:36:04 AM EST
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter on Friday signed an executive order allowing Unions to have a seat at the table in authorizing a bargaining partnership with state employees. It's apparently caused the anti-union groups in Colorado to go berserk.
The lead editorial of the Denver Post was put on the front page of the newspaper on Sunday, saying:
When Coloradans elected Bill Ritter as governor, they thought they were getting a modern-day version of Roy Romer, a pro-business Democrat. Instead, they got Jimmy Hoffa.
The editorial, unsigned but most likely ordered by the Post owner, Dean Singleton, is the type of hyperbolic & vitriolic screed that belongs more on some backwater comment of the blog pages of the Post, instead of the front-page of their Sunday edition.Blogs inside the state have engaged with this modern day Hearst-wannabee that's running the Denver Post. Singleton has a long anti-worker history, and his use of the Denver Post for his ideological hatred of workers is being denounced:
It's fine if the Post wants to attack Ritter in its editorial pages, but it's unconscionable to do so on the front page of the paper and then to include the absurd disclaimer that the editorial board and the rest of the newspaper are separate. It's no mystery that newspapers are dying in this country when fundamental journalistic integrity is blithely ignored.
More at Colorado Confidential and Square State showing Singleton is out of line.
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