Thomas Lipscomb writes to his friends and colleagues in the media:

This is a key moment in media history. So far NO ONE in MSM is covering this but my Chicago Sun-Times story and an item in the Washington Times. WHY? How do you account for it? Are you going to let this drop?

If we do… are you ready to support a Eason Jordan’s suit for reinstatement? HE did exactly the same thing as Linda Foley at the Newspaper Guild. Why the separate and unequal treatment?

Email me back off the record. I’d like your opinion as to what is going on here.

Good for Editor & Publisher for having the guts to run this...

I hope this helps tee up the issues… this is something we all better look into seriously before former American MSM employees are blogging for pennies.

And if we let this pass...we don’t deserve much more.

Today Lipscomb omits the "Keep the aspidistra flying" with which he usually concludes his messages. In the spirit of Lipscomb's usual closing, I've taken the heading above from the advertising slogan George Orwell substituted for "New hope for the ruptured" at the demand of his publisher before Keep the Aspidistra Flying was released in 1936.

Posted by Scott at 05:27 AM  |    |