Downing Street Memos

In the comments section of an article Stan Goff is running, I found this interesting letter:

I’m a journalist at a mid-sized daily just outside of New York City. I managed to convince one of my editors to allow me to pursue the DSM with a hard-hitting story using a strong local angle. He managed to sneak it onto page one above the fold on a Monday, only because none of the bigwig editors were working on Sunday. Since, we have been absolutely inundated with emails from our readers, and from people around the nation and the world, almost all of them positive and screaming for more coverage of what is obviously a serious issue.

Senior management’s response: My editor got his ass kicked around the block. He was told it’s not a “local” story, despite the fact we’ve lost many soliders from our readership area, we have dozens and dozens of reader families with sons and daughters over there, and a Congressional delegation that gleefully voted for the the war powers reolution. The volumnous email response, an avalanche of letters to the editor and the huge number of web hits the story generated were dismissed. I was told to “Sit the f**k down and shut the f**k up!” and yanked off the story, apparently forever.