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Pi Press Cartoonist's Farewell Memo

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Kirk Anderson was laid off earlier this month by the Pioneer Press after eight years as the paper's editorial cartoonist. Read his sad, angry, funny farewell letter here. A pertinent excerpt:

I hope seeing my rolling bloody head bobble down the stairs doesn't frighten anyone, I hope it just makes you cheesed off about the mess it leaves behind. I hope job cuts don't make anyone feel resigned to their fate and lucky merely to have a job; they should make us all fight harder for what we've got, and fight harder to build on it. Strong journalism doesn't come from frightened workers. Strong journalism comes from empowered employees who believe in themselves, in their mission, and who know that their company supports and cares about them and their mission too.

That passage doesn't really do Anderson's memo justice. I encourage you to read the entire missive. For more on his dismissal, and the ensuing outcry from editorial staff, see this Editor & Publisher story.

Why couldn't they fire Charley Walters?

Posted by Paul Demko at April 24, 2003 10:35 PM

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