[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 183 (Wednesday, December 16, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H9358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TAKE OFF YOUR MASKS

  (Ms. TITUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, last week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 
which is the largest newspaper in Nevada and is one of the largest in 
the Southwest, was sold to a group of unknown investors.
  We know little about the details of the sale except that the paper 
was purchased for $140 million by a group of financiers, including some 
who allegedly have ties to Las Vegas. We know nothing about the group, 
nothing about its business ties, its political positions, or its 
potential conflicts of interest.
  Several watchdog and journalistic integrity groups, including the 
Society of Professional Journalists, have rightly called for the new 
owners to be transparent and reveal their identities or risk having the 
quality and value of the information they provide rightly questioned by 
readers and employees.
  I applaud the many hard-working reporters, editors, photographers, 
and columnists at the RJ who have protested this lack of transparency 
and journalistic ethics.
  It is time for the new owners to take off their masks and prove they 
have nothing to hide.

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