To: Michael Schroeder, Managing Owner
Boycott New Britain Herald and Bristol Press until Mr. Michael E. Schroeder Resigns!
I urge everyone to boycott the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press and to cancel your subscriptions just like I have until both Mr. Schroder and Mr. Adelson resign from ownership! Last week I had asked Mr. Schroder to come clean and to make all financial and ownership records of the two newspaper's public. I was met with deafening silence. The people of New Britain and Bristol were lied to and we deserve to know the truth!
What has become clear now is that both newspapers owned by Michael Schroeder and Sheldon Adelson have been engaged in lies, deceptions, and unethical practices designed solely to go after their political enemies. Mr. Schroeder has been caught plagiarizing from other sources, and there were articles that appeared in both papers that were written by fake people who do not even exist in real life. There were even articles published solely to target judges and politicians - some as far away as Las Vegas!
We want our newspaper back! The people of New Britain and Bristol deserves a bipartisan daily paper that serves the interests of the people of New Britain and Bristol and not one that serves the interests of Mr. Schroder and Mr. Adelson. We want a paper that informs the community on what is happening here and not what some business court judge in Nevada is doing that is upsetting Mr. Adelson. As a daily subscriber, I did not pay hundreds of dollars a year to be lied to. I subscribed to the New Britain Herald because I wanted to read about the actual news and events of New Britain and not some phony political propaganda shrouded in secrecy funded by dark money secretly owned by special interest groups located some 2,000 miles away from my community.
I deserve better. The people of New Britain and Bristol deserve better. We want our newspaper back! And we will boycott both the New Britain Herald and Bristol Press until both Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Adelson remove themselves from ownership!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/steve-majerus-collins/why-i-quit-my-job-as-a-reporter-today/10153327505887883?hc_location=ufi
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/12/24/reporter-for-connecticuts-bristol-press-resigns-and-why-that-matters/?postshare=4611451219840914&tid=ss_fb
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/24/3734967/sheldon-adelson-las-vegas-review-sun-mike-hengel/
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-new-britain-herald-aba-huffpost-1224-20151223-story.html
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=P3F1iCvj
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporters-in-las-vegas-try-to-crack-case-of-who-owns-their-newspaper.html?
smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
http://www.courant.com/community/new-britain/hc-new-britain-herald-edward-clarkin-1223-20151223-story.html
What has become clear now is that both newspapers owned by Michael Schroeder and Sheldon Adelson have been engaged in lies, deceptions, and unethical practices designed solely to go after their political enemies. Mr. Schroeder has been caught plagiarizing from other sources, and there were articles that appeared in both papers that were written by fake people who do not even exist in real life. There were even articles published solely to target judges and politicians - some as far away as Las Vegas!
We want our newspaper back! The people of New Britain and Bristol deserves a bipartisan daily paper that serves the interests of the people of New Britain and Bristol and not one that serves the interests of Mr. Schroder and Mr. Adelson. We want a paper that informs the community on what is happening here and not what some business court judge in Nevada is doing that is upsetting Mr. Adelson. As a daily subscriber, I did not pay hundreds of dollars a year to be lied to. I subscribed to the New Britain Herald because I wanted to read about the actual news and events of New Britain and not some phony political propaganda shrouded in secrecy funded by dark money secretly owned by special interest groups located some 2,000 miles away from my community.
I deserve better. The people of New Britain and Bristol deserve better. We want our newspaper back! And we will boycott both the New Britain Herald and Bristol Press until both Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Adelson remove themselves from ownership!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/steve-majerus-collins/why-i-quit-my-job-as-a-reporter-today/10153327505887883?hc_location=ufi
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/12/24/reporter-for-connecticuts-bristol-press-resigns-and-why-that-matters/?postshare=4611451219840914&tid=ss_fb
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/24/3734967/sheldon-adelson-las-vegas-review-sun-mike-hengel/
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-new-britain-herald-aba-huffpost-1224-20151223-story.html
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=P3F1iCvj
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporters-in-las-vegas-try-to-crack-case-of-who-owns-their-newspaper.html?
smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
http://www.courant.com/community/new-britain/hc-new-britain-herald-edward-clarkin-1223-20151223-story.html
Why is this important?
The people of New Britain and Bristol deserve better! We need a newspaper that serves the public good and not its own political agenda. The New Britain Herald and Bristol Press is nothing more than fake journalism that systematically fails to find and seek the truth, that isn't fair and balanced, that plagiarizes, and that's in the pocket of the right wing conservative elite. We deserve a newspaper that serves the community and not one that serves Michael E. Schroeder and Sheldon Adelson!