Ex-Chicago Tribune editor James Squires warned in 1993 about the corporate takeover of America’s ...

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Back in 1993, a former editor of the Chicago Tribune sounded an alarm about the growing conflict between the drive for corporate profits and traditional journalism’s social-reform agenda.
That was close to six years before I joined the Trib (web.archive.org...) and close to two decades before that trend inexorably led to a gutting of the paper’s staff (www.chicagopub...) .
As the paper welcomes a new editor (apnews.com/art...) , now seems like a good time to revisit the words of Jim Squires, talking about his book Read All About It! The Corporate Takeover of America’s Newspapers (archive.org/de...) -in an interview recorded Feb. 3, 1993, and aired Feb. 7 on WNUA-FM, Chicago. Listen up (open.spotify.c...) .
If you like this, check out more of my conversations with thought-leaders through the years on this website (www.meyersonstr...) , in Apple Music (itunes.apple.c...) , on Spotify (open.spotify.c...) , via your favorite podcast player (feeds.feedburne...) and at Chicago Public Square (www.chicagopub...) .