CBS News Public Eye | Etaoin Shrdlu
If he were 30 or 35 years old, would
Howard Weaver keep working for a newspaper company? The McClatchy vice-president, who is 56,
writes: "My answer is still unequivocal and clear: yes, I'd absolutely stay -- and for the same reasons that I did in the first place. I simply ask whether what I'm doing is still mission-driven: does it help hold the government accountable, speak truth to power, build community cohesion? Can I still feel at the end of the day (and the end of a career) that what I did was worthwhile, and that it made some difference?"