Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Board member of the (Gerald) Ford Foundation quits, excoriates fellow board members ...
Board member of the (Gerald) Ford Foundation quits, excoriates fellow board members for preemptive political cowardice in the face of a possible/likely new Trump presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/10/david-hume-kennerly-liz-cheney-gerald-ford-foundation-00151480
Cowardice is contagious, and it is spreading.
But courage is contagious, too. Remember that.
There is a lesson here for Big Journalism, of course. But our top news organizations, so far, have refused to step up to what these times demand.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/10/david-hume-kennerly-liz-cheney-gerald-ford-foundation-00151480
Cowardice is contagious, and it is spreading.
But courage is contagious, too. Remember that.
There is a lesson here for Big Journalism, of course. But our top news organizations, so far, have refused to step up to what these times demand.