Wendy McCaw's memorial memorandum

December 13, 2006 HiA: "There she is.
Read the Memo, it doesn't get any plainer than that: Give me complete and total loyalty or it's off with your heads. Those who are doing her bidding, even in the guise of "saving their jobs" "having a mortgage" "loving working in the news," have to take stock. See what happened in Germany. This will not save you. Being whittled away, little by little, will not save you.

This is megalomania, and there needs to be a complete and total walkout from it. That includes readers, subscribers, advertisers. The people in the newsroom need to take a day and just Walk out.

I was a 30-year subscriber and quit. I went through a period of buying the News-Press at the local market, and quit that, too. Those of you who are addicted to obits, or whatever else is left in this unfortunate publication, need to take stock - and just stop.

If you really need to know what is in the News-Press, log onto newspress.com and you'll see capsulized paragraphs under each headline, and if there is something you just can't live without, then go buy it.

Subscribing to this paper is an endorsement to what it's become. There should be Zero Subscribers. ASAP.

In WWII Germany, people did not stand up to a sick mind who demanded this kind of loyalty. It is time to Just. Say. No.

PS:
Also, if you read any psychological works on Hitler, you will see that every single object of his affections (his love-relationships) ended very badly. Because when you compromise yourself for power and yachts, you have nothing left when it's over.

And it will be over."
COMMENT from HiA about Wendy's 12/5 memo