Ever since longtime publisher William S. Morris III sold The Augusta Chronicle and later stepped away from editorial control, employees, content and circulation have greatly diminished. During that transition to new ownership, though, one of the few bright spots left within The Chronicle pages was veteran political columnist/reporter Sylvia Cooper. But yesterday, in her often blunt “watchdog over government” Sunday column, she announced her resignation in disgust.
The column that ran yesterday was only part of what she had originally wrote. “Without communicating with me at all, the editors cut more than half of what I wrote,” she explained. “I suppose because it painted an unflattering, but true, picture of the vacant buildings and awful neglect on Broad Street in downtown Augusta.” She continued that “I have never had most of anything else I wrote for The Chronicle slashed like that without the courtesy of an explanation, so I have resigned…I have enjoyed my 30-year career there and will miss you terribly. I do want you to read what I wrote that was cut from my column, so I am posting it below.”
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