Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Commentary: Abe is doing our job for us

Our cohort and former BJ political columnist Abe Zaidan has written an analysis that BJ Alums should have done on the failure of the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a community watchdog. Why didn't the PD uncover the years-old corruption in Cleveland before the government finally revealed it?

Abe quotes the explanation by the newsaper's ombudsman and laments that in today's media world the watchdogs are all napping--or maybe newspapers just cannot afford a watchdog.

Click on the headline to read the view of Grumpy Abe.

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