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Forward Kentucky: How to get banned at the C-J: mention the union drive

Berry Craig
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By BERRY CRAIG

The truth is supposed to set you free. Trying to tell the truth about the union drive in the Courier-Journal newsroom got me banned as a regular op-ed contributor to Kentucky’s largest paper.

Apparently, the C-J hasn’t printed a word about the drive since it was announced on Aug. 30. (The Falls City broadcast media has been on the story.)

When I updated a Labor Day op-ed piece for the C-J with a single sentence about the drive, the sentence got edited out. After I called attention to the deletion in the comment section below my piece, I got sacked.

Read more here.