The Salt Lake
Tribune has announced the layoffs of over a third of its newsroom; some 34
or so reporters, editors, and other staff. As the author of over a dozen blog
pieces titled Salt Lake Tribune
Tripe, I have, rightly, been especially critical of their poor and biased coverage
of stories related to Mormonism.
It is a tremendously difficult thing to lose your job;
your means of supporting yourself and your family. I hope all of these former Tribune employees are able to find other
work soon, or enjoy retirement (which some of them opted for). Most of these
reporters were probably good at their jobs and reported news accurately and
fairly in the varied fields of their expertise. I don’t think most reasonable
people would want to do anything but wish them the best.
But there is a disappointing side to these layoffs that
hasn’t yet been mentioned in the preliminary news stories I have seen. Some of
the Tribune’s employees, like Peggy
Stack, that should have been let go, were not. This was the perfect time for
Paul Huntsman to show some backbone and get rid of his media company’s
anti-Mormon reporters—but he royally blew the opportunity. I only recognized
one name of those now gone who contributed anti-Mormon stories to that paper;
the others seem to have unfortunately survived.
As I have written in the past, the Tribune’s boast of being Utah’s “Independent Voice” or “Watchdog”
has usually equated to criticism of everything a prophet of God does. Few are
the occasions of reluctant commendation and even those rare pieces usually have
something thrown in them to cast a negative light somehow.
So along with their financial troubles, they have another
trouble, that of missing a golden opportunity to clean up the negative Mormon
bias in their newsroom; to get rid of their fake Mormon news; to get rid of
Peggy Stack and one or two others who are so obsessed with negativity and
criticism of the LDS Church. I still have hope for getting rid of them in the
future.
As for the others that went today, good luck to them and
may they find good and honorable work elsewhere, and may it indeed be
honorable. To be paid to criticize a church you are supposedly a member of (or
not) is about as low and hypocritical of a thing that a person can do, yet they
do it. Money for betrayal; sounds familiar.
On top
of that, they try to push their private agendas on the Church—pushing extremist
feminism and gay/lesbian lifestyle acceptance propaganda; trying to force the Lord’s
Church, using the leverage of publicity, to accept the vain philosophies of the
world, which include doctrines of men and devils.
A Mormon
Church modeled after Peggy Stack’s personal philosophies would by definition be
an apostate church, impotent to save souls. Oh, how glad and deeply grateful I
am that the prophets and apostles are directed by scripture and modern
revelation and not by the suggestions found in the Tribune’s fake Mormon news/columns or those liberal/progressive/dissidents
quoted therein! How much does a faithful, loyal, believing, testimonied,
member, or disciple of Christ, really care about Stack’s feminism and LGBT
activism? Absolutely nothing. Why does she constantly subject readers to her
personal propaganda that she got from being in and of and part of the telestial
world surrounding her? Can she not simply report the facts of the news instead
of trying to persuade people out of the Church? Why won’t she attend a good
journalism school where she could learn how to report correctly instead of
manufacturing opinion (from friends) that agrees with her own views and calling
it news? I will take comfort that I can continue hoping for more layoffs of the
right people (or is that wrong people?) in the future. In the meantime, let’s
hope the Tribune can continue, even
short-handed, to do a good job reporting on fields and stories that have
nothing to do with Mormonism and where they have shown competence, like the
Utah Jazz, etc.
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