Reply #1: Newspapers everywhere are doing this [View All]

[Newsjock]

And they ought to be ashamed of themselves for doing so. The information has always been public, but when Joe Freeper had to trundle down to the courthouse and page through microfilm to find it, that was far different from anyone now being able to find it instantly online.

Newspapers aren't doing this to be "good citizens"; they, too, are trying to pit us against each other -- and emasculate their own neutered employee unions in the process. It's disgusting, and unions in some towns have launched boycotts against the newspapers that do this.

California State Workers Protest Salary Database Publication
http://www.govtech.com/gt/275170