Board member of the (Gerald) Ford Foundation quits, excoriates fellow board members for preemptive political cowardice in the face of a possible/likely new Trump presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/10/david-hume-kennerly-liz-cheney-gerald-ford-foundation-00151480
Cowardice is contagious, and it is spreading.
But courage is contagious, too. Remember that.
There is a lesson here for Big Journalism, of course. But our top news organizations, so far, have refused to step up to what these times demand.
Dan Gillmor /
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