If the media wants public trust, it has to trust the public

Regarding A.G. Sulzberger’s Sept.

6 column, “ How the quiet war against press freedom could come to America ”: Could a campaign against the free press be embraced in the United States? This is the question posed by the publisher of the New York Times. Our experience here in Pueblo, Colo., should serve as a reminder that the sort of hyper-consolidation and hollowing-out of independent media that Mr.



Sulzberger describes is well underway here at home..