CNHI fails to publicize furloughs

The hypocrisy of CNHI newspapers, including the Joplin Globe, which report thoroughly on the troubles facing other businesses, but to stay mum on their own, is the subject of commentary in the Niagara Falls Reporter:

The Gazette, of course, failed to report on the unpaid furloughs, though it is a certainty they would have reported on them had they taken place at some other Niagara County business.

The policy of not reporting on itself is nothing new at the Gazette, which also kept quiet when it let the state spend $35,000 on a river stone and wrought iron decorative wall to spruce up its shabby property at the corner of Third and Niagara streets three years ago.

In that case, the benighted daily acted as a cheerleader for the state's Third Street construction program, which it claimed would lead to a flourishing entertainment district along the strip from Niagara to Main.

Instead, the state's plan was a dismal failure that eliminated most on-street parking, which resulted in more nightclubs and restaurants going out of business than have opened.

It is uncertain whether Gazette employees are entitled to collect unemployment during the furloughs, but the paper's management has a long and disgraceful tradition of fighting unemployment claims filed by many of its cashiered former workers.