How a colorful Iowa newspaperman is taking on big interests

Positive article about a small newspaper that won a Pulitzer.


"Art Cullen is not afraid of horsewhipping, but he allows that some folks really don’t like what he writes in his newspaper.

"Writing on President Trump: “He is a fool. He is ignorant. People who prop up an ignoramus should question themselves, unless they don’t have the wits to recognize it.”

On complaints that immigrants have undercut labor by taking slaughterhouse jobs at $15 an hour: “The wages aren’t Manhattan, but they’re enough to get by in Storm Lake. It is the best a proud person illiterate in English from El Salvador could hope for. It offers the freedom that is yet a dream in Myanmar. It offers peace from the civil war in Sudan, and a place for the long-wandering migrant to plant some roots.”

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0815/How-a-colorful-Iowa-newspaperman-is-taking-on-big-interests