Unfortunately, this attack on free expression feels all too familiar. From the unjust firing of a reporter who dared to speak up, to the union gag rule that The Sun wants to force into our contract, we’ve seen too many attempts by management to erode our core values. We won’t stop fighting.

Source:

• SBGI SEC Form 10-Q (2nd quarter, 2025) www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

• SBGI SEC Form 10-K (2024 Annual Report) www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Management has responded by disciplining Guild members who dared to speak up; and illegally hiring around the union to do David Smith and Armstrong Williams’ bidding.

Their idea for a contract: More ways to retaliate against our members, and far fewer guarantees.

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To borrow from what we say when we run a correction on something we got wrong in an article: The Sun regrets the error, but this ownership sure doesn't.

But we’ll end with Mark Twain. His alleged quote: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are mis-informed.” The Center for Mark Twain Studies says this is one of the quotes most commonly misattributed to Twain.

We could go on and on about the quotes, or rather misquotes, of everyone from Thomas Edison to Hannah Arendt.

Then there are some questionable quotes from Cicero. Maybe they were lost in translation, or from him speaking from the grave: his birth and death dates are given as 106 BC to 43 AD — meaning he lived nearly 150 years.