PD: From super coverage of Ariel Castro to bootlicking advertisers

Slate.com savages the Cleveland Plain Dealer for going from mesmerizing coverage of the Ariel Castro horror story involving three captive females to kow-towing to a chain restaurant with its food reviews.

As for the reporters who covered Castro, three are among the unemployed thanks to PD management eliminating 50 more staffers in July:

Edith Starzyk, who wrote about how Castro was fired from his job as a school bus driver; Michael O’Malley, who reported on the Castro family’s Cleveland-area roots; and Felesia Jackson, who produced an interactive guide to the major players in the ongoing story.

Instead, Justin Peters writes that the PD has gone to bootlicking advertisers.

To read the entire article, click on http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/08/15/cleveland_plain_dealer_barbara_collier_cleveland_com_s_review_of_the_cheesecake.html