In the past couple of years, the Knight Ridder family of newspapers, including the Miami Herald and Philly Inquirer, have received quite a bit of praise from their journalism comrades, but in Howard Kurtz's Kurtz points us to an article in the Miami New Times where KR columnist Carl Hiaasen rips into his parent company a bit.
Anyone who can look you in the eye and tell you the Miami Herald of 2004 is as good as it was in 1984 is out of their skull. It's palpable, the difference is palpable.But he knows that they're still doing great work, just that their hands are being tied. The reporters and editors are fighting to get their stories their due given the circumstances and churning out great stuff, regardless.
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