If I had been Editor John Hillkirk (who is not among those I’ve heard from) I would have led the entire news staff walking out in protest. If such a stupid decision is ever made again, I hope that will be the result. That would leave those who apparently don’t understand what a newspaper is to try to put one out without a news staff.
— USA Today founding executive Allen Neuharth, in a scathing letter to the paper’s current publisher, blasting a decision earlier this summer to make a Jeep ad the entire front page.
