SB News-Press Editorial Page Editor is Gone

Travis Armstrong editorial page editor at Santa Barbara News-Press, owner Wendy McCaw lackey, has been fired.

Barney Brantingham at the Santa Barbara Independent sums up the decline:

Since then about 100 people have quit or been fired for union activity-illegally fired, according to a judge’s decision. McCaw has spent millions battling the newsroom unionization brought on by her own behavior that fateful summer of discontent. Reporters and others felt they needed a union to help protect them against what they considered a tyrannical, capricious owner. The paper is now a hollow husk of what it was then, not only an instrument of McCaw’s libertarian-style ideology but a vehicle of vengeance against anyone on whom she fixes an angry eye.

Find the whole piece here.

Previously on FBLA:

Citizen McCaw Screened Despite Cease and Desist

‘Citizen McCaw’ To Hit Public Television This Weekend

Wendy McCaw(ful) Destroys Yet Another Publication

Wendy McCaw(ful) is the Ted Haggard of the Newspaper Biz

NLRB Files More Complaints Against Wendy McCaw(ful)

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