On February 9, 2019, at about 10pm, in the vicinity of the finish of a Saturday evening change, John Robinson Block, one particular of the proprietors of the Toledo Blade and Pittsburgh Article-Gazette, came into the Post-Gazette newsroom on the second ground of a creating on Pittsburgh’s North Shore.
According to reporters existing that evening, he appeared equally intoxicated and enraged. His young daughter was with him. He headed for a sign that the Pittsburgh Write-up-Gazette Guild experienced hung prominently in the main hub of the newsroom, which browse shame on the blocks! in huge black lettering, with the word disgrace in vibrant purple. The guild has been included in protracted deal negotiations with the Block household and has filed above a dozen grievances to the Countrywide Labor Relations Board in excess of the earlier 5 decades for unfair labor techniques.
Block, who also serves as the paper’s publisher and editor in main, approached a image editor on duty. He requested the editor to take a photograph of him and his daughter in front of the signal. When his daughter, who experienced begun to cry, stated she didn’t want to, Block responded, in accordance to Submit-Gazette reporter Andrew