You know, we’d be happy to stop writing about the
News-Press debacle anytime soon, repurpose this blog to
covering all sorts of S.B. media, and just go back to the regular
news-gathering/scoop-snagging gig we’ve been doing for 20 years
now. But it seems that the N-P‘s owner Wendy McCaw just
can’t stop bringing the spotlight of shame back her way at least
once a week. And by the end of last week, there were two
developments in the News-Press mess that piqued our
interest.
To be fair, the first news bit is something that Wendy asked for
a long time ago, so we won’t hold it against her as a weekly cry
for attention this time. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that
deals with that often tempestuous divide between employers and
employees, rejected last week three significant News-Press
charges related to the September 27 union vote, in which 85 percent
of the newsroom voted to join the Graphics Communications Conference of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The first charge was that newsroom staffers intimidated owner
Wendy McCaw when they attempted to hand-deliver a letter to her.
The second was that the website SavetheNewsPress.com posted misleading comments.
involved in union organizing, a big no-no when forming a union. All
three were rejected by both the regional decision makers in Los
Angeles and by the big wigs in Washington D.C.
