Must Read on N-P

I heard this was coming, but when it failed to appear in the October/November issue of the AJR magazine, I thought it was spiked out of fear for the now-usual lawsuits. This article is the 6060 stunning words and much of the story that Vanity Fair declined to publish.
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4236

VIDEO OF BILTMORE VIGIL HELD 11th November.

So everyone can see for themselves all the insinuated burning effigies, tire necklaces, Molotov cocktails, and obscene hatespeech out there on the sidewalk in front of Biltmore Hotel last Saturday for the candlelight vigil, here is the cablecast schedule (cable TV, not cabal TV) for this half-hour special production by Larry Nimmer, shown by the Rival Media, Santa Barbara Channels, Community Access Cable Channel 17:

Friday, 11/17 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, 11/18 at 6:00 pm
Sunday, 11/19 at 2:00 pm and 10:00 pm
Tuesday, 11/21 at 7:30 am
Wed., 11/22 at 10:00 am 6:30 pm
Thurs., 11/23 at 5:30 pm and 10:30 pm

As we recall the responses from News-Press in its editorial and news releases about the labor union vigil last week, here is an invitation up front.

The commemorative and celebration dinner farewell for outgoing and self-scheduled retiring County Supervisor Susan Rose will be held on Saturday evening at Temple B'Nai Brith, located (yes) in the Noleta foothills.

Reports are that the event is fully sold out, with very cozy dining with 10 people per table instead of the usual 8.

However, if detractors of Susan Rose want to show up, light a candle vigil, and stand peaceably on the public sidewalk while waving signs, they still can do that, a right fully protected under our Constitution. No one will complain about such a demonstration of free speech and Constitutional rights, and plenty of people who are participating in the event inside gladly will die for the right for those detractors to demonstrate peaceably like that out there on the public ground.

So COME ON DOWN Travis Armstrong, Gary Earle, Agnes Huff n Puff, Andy Colab Caldwell, Kathy Lucian, Joe Armendariz, Nipper, and all your buddies. No one will say or write later that you have no right to be there, and no one will claim you are trying to intimidate or disrespect charitable donors simply by being there on the public sidewalk, even with a sign.

If you are there, dear Travis K. Armstrong, I even will bring you a plate of kosher chicken while you are out on the sidewalk. We'll even interview you on video and show it on TV!

What are you afraid of?

Hey I Heart---- why invite hostility? the best protest is the one that emerges authentically from the protesters....no one from within the N-P management invited the vigil attendees.......

Is it hostility, or is it mockery?

But I definitely did mean that I will bring any hypocritical demonstrators a plate of tofurkey, not kosher chicken. Or maybe just some beans and rice, as "the Wendy" once suggested all the little people should prefer for Thanksgiving holiday season.

The two AJR are magnificent.

The Wiki on the News-Press is a reasonable source too.

Just via my own friends and family this article has reached all parts of the region, state and nation in the past day....it's a quite compelling telling of this saga....people---send it far and wide and keep spreading the word==== it's like kidnap victims being able to send a message to the world about what's happening here......

Get a clue -- and a sense of humor -- "provocateur watch".

"However, if you wish to read an infinite thread of mean, mostly very personal attacks on me--just Google my name or check The Independent." from SBNP, Dr. Laura column (11-19-06). The Independent? I didn't know you wrote much about her?

pooorrrr "DR" Laura......

Just don't Google: "Dr. Laura Nude Photos." Please.

Susan Paterno's account of the News-Press debacle and the ensuing struggle to protect the interests of the Santa Barbara community is detailed and passionate reporting of the highest order. It does a marvelous job of conveying the raw sense of heartbreak and frustration experienced by a group of dedicated professionals, as they witness the destruction of a vibrant news daily, at the hands of some self-righteous, foie gras-nibbling buffoons.

for more information click here: SAVE THE NEWS PRESS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SB KICKS OFF “HEROISM IN JOURNALISM” FILM FEST

Opening night on December 9 will raise funds for beleaguered News-Press journalists

The first-ever journalism film series in Santa Barbara will open December 9 with a free screening of “All the President’s Men,” a 1976 movie that celebrates truth in reporting and the courage it takes to get the story out. In the film, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who exposed the Watergate scandal under the Nixon administration.

A reception before the movie will help raise funds for Santa Barbara News-Press journalists, past and present, who are under attack from Wendy McCaw, the News-Press owner and co-publisher. Thirty reporters and editors have left the paper since early July.

“All the President’s Men” will screen at 6:30 p.m. December 9 in the Marjorie Luke Theatre at Santa Barbara Junior High School, 721 E. Cota Street. Admission will be free. Coffee and treats will be served after the screening.

Before the movie, from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., the public is invited to attend a reception at Arnoldi’s Café, 600 Olive Street, to meet the News-Press journalists. Admission will be $50 per person. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

All proceeds will go to the Journalists Loan Fund, offering no-interest loans to News-Press reporters and editors who have been forced out or fired by Wendy McCaw.

The film and the reception will feature several guest speakers, including Ann Louise Bardach, an investigative journalist who writes for The Atlantic Monthly and other publications; Lou Cannon, the biographer of Ronald Reagan; Howard Rosenberg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former television critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Sander Vanocur, a former correspondent for ABC and NBC News.

“All the President’s Men” will be the first in an intermittent film series in Santa Barbara honoring the men and women who report the news “without fear or favor of friend or foe” — the motto of former News-Press publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas M. Storke.

The December 9 events are hosted by the organizers of the Journalists Loan Fund and sponsored by Sara Miller McCune, Dave Peri and Arnoldi’s Café, and The Fund for Santa Barbara.

To make a reservation for the reception or to send a donation to the Journalists Loan Fund, please contact Sue Broidy, the treasurer, at 640-7340 or sbroidy@ojai.net.

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News Press Mess makes pages of Business Week:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnfl...

(hope the link works)

Yup - the link works. I hope Spendy enjoys her tofurkey. But, what will Arthur be eating? Crow perhaps?

The Santa Barbar 9 have made great personal sacrifice in a fight for American's "right to know." It is the community and the nation who are under attack by special interests, translated private owners. I would suggest the only meaningful protest can come from the subscribers. If I were a subscriber I'd cancel mysubscription. And it sounds like there is an "integrity in journalism" niche in the area for some enterprising entrepenure who might want to get into the newspaper business. If the subscribers don't reward integrity and punish corruption, we have only ourselves to blame.