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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits <i>Newsday</i>: "When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits <i>Newsday</i>: "When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy"

We speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett, who resigned from Newsday and ripped the paper’s parent company, the Tribune Company, for putting profit over quality journalism. Garrett says, "If you trim back your staff, if you trim back your costs, and you put out a lower quality product, your stock value goes up. All across the news industry, we have seen this same phenomenon." [includes rush transcript]

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