That day, TNG plans protests--one form may be a 5-minute standing period of silence at newsroom desks--against the loss of 44,000 newspaper jobs due to mega-mergers, cost-cutting and profit-taking in the last five years. It has also established a website on the issue, www.savejournalism.org. 

The protests will come the day of another Federal Communications Commission hearing, in Nashville, on the issue of media consolidation. TNG President Linda Foley led a nationwide crusade against the conglomerates before, and is leading it again with TNG\'s parent union, CWA, against such consolidation. An earlier FCC hearing in Los Angeles was jammed with more than 1,000 foes of the media mega-mergers.

"Workers will be standing together for journalism and against growing efforts by corporate owners to slash the jobs and resources that serve our communities," Foley explained. TNG also plans to show up in force for the Nashville hearing, to testify against consolidation of newspapers, TV, cable, radio and the Internet under corporate umbrellas, cutting off the news that readers and viewers need to help society function.

As a result of prior consolidating, cuts and mergers, "Today, throughout the country, there are fewer journalists, fewer diverse media voices, less news and a public that is under-informed. That\'s why we\'re asking the public to join us--for democracy\'s sake--to say no to cutting the jobs of journalists and all workers whose work supports good journalism," Foley declared.

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