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Newspaper to Washington: Help Detroit automakers
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DETROIT - In a full, front-page editorial being sent to every member of Congress, the Detroit Free Press is urging lawmakers to offer a "hand up" to save Detroit's automakers.
The newspaper on Friday wrote that more than 3 million jobs are at stake and a failure of one or more of the Michigan-based automakers would deepen the country's worst recession in 27 years.
The chief executives of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC are in Washington seeking $34 billion in aid to keep the companies from collapsing by year's end.
The editorial is titled, "A Message to Washington: Invest in America."
Free Press editor Paul Anger wrote that a newspaper needs to inform but there are times when it "needs to speak up for what's right."
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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