How Newhouse turned

newspapers into outhouses

for its reporters and editors

It’s old news to those reading this BJ Alums blog from the PD perspective but Prospect.org does an excellent job of detailing how the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications nationally created a union-busting template for media conglomerates.

At least 36,000 journalists and support staff have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic in America.

Newhouse's Advance eliminated every union job at Local 1 of the American Newspaper Guild!

The PD went from more than 700 total members to NO Guild members. The work was transferred to the scab Cleveland.com .

The Newhouse family brought in hired guns – some with actual weapons -- to beat down union members at its newspapers all over America, much like coal mine operators in West Virginia hired Pinkerton goons to beat up, shoot and intimate United Mine Workers Union members in the 20^th century.

Newhouse is #1 in putting out the most newspaper people out of work than any publisher in history.

When it comes to morality, John Knight had more on a pimple on his ass than the entire Newhouse family.

JSK was a good businessman, but he was a great owner and editor first.

This article has a lot of details about the horrid history of Newhouse and its mistreatment of its editors and reporters.

Click on the blue https://prospect.org/labor/busting-the-guild-in-cleveland/?fbclid=IwAR3Stv7uFbnzO5hS_Xi6wpai8QUSOkJ5Yc1OGXRj4b7UWqby7scq4lcWP00 to read it.

Be sure you have a vomit bucket handy.