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By Raul Hernandez<\/h2>\n

Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/h2>\n
\n

Having been a journalist for more than 30 years, when I read Steve Majerus-Collins’<\/strong> resignation that he submitted on Christmas Eve, it made me very proud of the profession I left.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"newspapers\"<\/a>The resignation has to do with\u00a0Michael Schroeder<\/strong>, manager of News + Media Capital Group LLC, which bought the Last Vegas Review-Journal early this month<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Schroeder works for billionaire and controversial owner\u00a0Sheldon Adelson,\u00a0<\/strong>who purchased Nevada’s largest newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schroeder and his boss Adelson are unscrupulous characters who recently left a sleazy trail after the purchase of the Las Vegas Review Journal. Schroeder plagiarized an unedited and secret story to placate his master Adelson.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Las Vegeas Review wrote a story Wednesday about Schroeder titled: “Mystery Surrounds Writer’s Name.”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Critics say Adelson is vindictive and is going to use the newspaper to go after his political enemies and transform the newspaper into his personal PR firm.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times on Wednesday wrote an excellent article about the sale:\u00a0The Las Vegas Review-Journal Is in Upheaval After a Sale to Adelson<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I have worked at four newspapers for many great editors \u2014 one who stands out is Georgina Vines when I worked at the El Paso Herald-Post. \u00a0She was a tough and demanding lady. But she supported and stood by her reporters through thick and thin if they were honest and ethical journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Journalism today is filled with too many fat and happy editors who are more interested in writing entertainment and fluff stories than tackling serious issues like police brutality or public corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also there are too many reporters who are lazy and want to be loved by those they cover on their beats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Then, there are reporters like Michael Rezendes and Sacha Pfeiffer who are portrayed in the movie “Spotlight”<\/strong> about the true story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting\u00a0on the pedophile-priest scandal in the Catholic Church.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have throughout my journalism career worked with many reporters like Rezendes and Pfeiffer who were passionate and bulldogs when covering controversial stories. <\/span><\/p>\n

They taught me a lot about investigative reporting, and some of them have become good friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading all the stories about the Las Vegas Review Journal involving Adelson and Schroeder, I would have been very proud to have worked with Steve Majerus-Collins. He epitomizes what journalism is all about.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is his resignation:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Why I quit my job as a reporter today”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

STEVE MAJERUS-COLLINS\u00b7THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Christmas Eve, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty five years ago, as a young reporter, I sat in an Upstate New York courtroom where a judge ordered me to hand over a leaked hospital lab slip that showed a state trooper had been drunk during a late-night crash. <\/span><\/p>\n

When I refused, I thought I would wind up behind bars, the culmination of a months-long drama that forced me to confront both the best and worst parts of my chosen profession. In the end, fortunately, I dodged jail time without giving in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, no longer young, I once again face a moment that calls for me to put my own needs aside and to stand once more for principle.<\/span><\/p>\n

I work for a man, Michael Schroeder<\/strong>, who in 2009 bought the small daily that has employed me for two decades at a time when the future of The Bristol Press looked dim. He came in promising to shatter old ways and to help push the financially troubled paper to new heights.<\/span><\/p>\n

As is so frequently the case with newspaper publishers, his rhetoric didn\u2019t mean much. <\/span><\/p>\n

By 2011, my wife \u2013 a superb fellow reporter who\u2019d been at my side the whole time \u2013 quit in disgust after Mr. Schroeder cut a deal with a major advertiser, the local hospital, to keep a damaging news story under wraps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because she could not let the community know the local hospital had fired all of its emergency room physicians, my wife, Jackie Majerus, handed in her resignation. It means very little to be a reporter if you cannot report the news.<\/span><\/p>\n

I stayed on, though, continuing to write about government and politics, because we could not get by without any paycheck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jackie has spent most of the past four years as the unpaid executive director of an amazing charity we created, Youth Journalism International, which teaches students across the globe about journalism. They write stories, take pictures, draw cartoons and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the past 22 years, it has been a labor of love for us both, a constant infusion of idealism and some incredible work on everything from Hurricane Katrina to Boko Haram. One of the things we emphasize is that journalism is not just a career, it is a calling, that it requires those who join its ranks to stand up for what\u2019s right even when it is difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have watched in recent days as Mr. Schroeder has emerged as a spokesman for a billionaire with a penchant for politics who secretly purchased a Las Vegas newspaper and is already moving to gut it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have learned with horror that my boss shoveled a story into my newspaper \u2013 a terrible, plagiarized piece of garbage about the court system \u2013 and then stuck his own fake byline on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

He handed it to a page designer who doesn\u2019t know anything about journalism late one night and told him to shovel it into the pages of the paper. I admit I never saw the piece until recently, but when I did, I knew it had Mr. Schroeder\u2019s fingerprints all over it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet when enterprising reporters asked my boss about it, he claimed to know nothing or told them he had no comment. Yesterday, they blew the lid off this idiocy completely, proving that Mr. Schroeder lied, that he submitted a plagiarized story, bypassed what editing exists and basically used the pages of my newspaper, secretly, to further the political agenda of his master out in Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n

In sum, the owner of my paper is guilty of journalistic misconduct of epic proportions.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no excusing this behavior. A newspaper editor cannot be allowed to stamp on the most basic rules of journalism and pay no price. He should be shunned by my colleagues, cut off by professional organizations and told to pound sand by anyone working for him who has integrity.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I quit.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no idea how my wife and I will get by. We have two kids in college, two collies, a mortgage and dreams of travel and adventure that now look more distant than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s what I know: I can\u2019t teach young people how to be ethical, upstanding reporters while working for a man like Michael Schroeder. I can\u2019t take his money. I can\u2019t do his bidding. I have to stand up for what is right even if the cost is so daunting that at this moment it scares the hell out of me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that my profession can somehow lend a hand. Take a look at what we\u2019re doing at Youth Journalism International \u2013 youthjournalism.org and yjiblog.org are good places to start \u2013 and maybe we\u2019ll get some new donors who have as much faith in the future of journalism as we do. This is a truly outstanding nonprofit that should be paying my wife a salary for her countless hours of work.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for me, I am sorry to give up on my coverage of Bristol. I feel a part of the fabric of the community after covering it since 1994. It has so many wonderful people and much to offer. But I think those I know there will understand why I\u2019m doing this and, I trust, support my decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever happens, I am going to hold my head high and face the future with resolve. Journalism is nothing if we reporters falter and fade. We are doing something important and men such Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Adelson \u2013 no matter how much money they can toss around \u2013 cannot have their way with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Collins<\/span>
\n majeruscollins@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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