To: Jon Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Skoll, Eli Broad, and Warren Buffett
MEDIA LEADERS: Please help us buy the Tribune Company before it's too late!
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Each of you is a media hero to millions of working Americans. Will you join us NOW, and help make this a fair fight? Please join forces with everyday citizens who want to preserve our access to REAL journalism, and outbid the Kochs. Help us buy the Tribune Company newspapers and place them in the hands of their communities. Each paper will serve as an inspiring example of how the determination of many can still trump the ruthlessness of a few.
Why is this important?
A free press is considered the cornerstone of our democracy. But "free" is a relative term when media consolidation makes it virtually impossible for the public to get objective news. Now Charles and David Koch want to buy the Tribune Company newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Daily Call, Orlando Sentinel, and Hoy. We all know what we'll be reading if that happens: skewed reporting on every major issue, with a healthy side of climate change denial. It will be the kind of "journalism" we get from FOX News.
Regular citizens are determined to stop them, and have pledged every cent we can spare to a crowd-funded effort led by the nonprofit "The Other 98%." Our aim is to buy the papers. But the end of the campaign is just days away and we are still woefully short of our fundraising goal. We need a miracle. That's why we are reaching out to five respected media leaders – all known for their philanthropy as well as their business acumen – and asking them to step up and join us in the fight to save genuine, honest to goodness journalism.
We want Warren Buffett, Eli Broad, Jeff Skoll, Oprah Winfrey, and Jon Stewart to help us buy the Tribune Company newspapers and give each of them back to their communities. The Green Bay Packers football team has been under public ownership for half a century. If public ownership works for sports, why not news and weather?
Regular citizens are determined to stop them, and have pledged every cent we can spare to a crowd-funded effort led by the nonprofit "The Other 98%." Our aim is to buy the papers. But the end of the campaign is just days away and we are still woefully short of our fundraising goal. We need a miracle. That's why we are reaching out to five respected media leaders – all known for their philanthropy as well as their business acumen – and asking them to step up and join us in the fight to save genuine, honest to goodness journalism.
We want Warren Buffett, Eli Broad, Jeff Skoll, Oprah Winfrey, and Jon Stewart to help us buy the Tribune Company newspapers and give each of them back to their communities. The Green Bay Packers football team has been under public ownership for half a century. If public ownership works for sports, why not news and weather?