Block Communication family member supports insurrection online as BCI journalists allege management edited stories to "downplay" the events

A day after Trump supporters pushed and struck local police, allegedly with lead pipes, broke windows, and occupied the U.S. Capitol offices and chambers, journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade are calling out their ownership group Block Communications and its family, alleging their politics are playing a part in recent news coverage of the events. According to a press release from the Toledo and Pittsburgh NewsGuilds unions, which represent journalist at both papers, Blade Executive Editor Kurt Franck issued an edict to all Blade web staff, saying they could not refer to those rioting in Washington as “Trump supporters,” despite the event being Donald Trump-branded, and an event the president encouraged.…

