Letter: Our free press is in peril

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Paul Huntsman, owner of The Salt Lake Tribune, addresses staff members, Tuesday May 8, 2018.I am sick about the substantial cuts to staff and content at The Salt Lake Tribune. The newspaper’s owner, Paul Huntsman, reportedly said he had to go ahead with the layoffs because he had three kids to put through college.

What about the financial well-being of the 34 people — his former employees — who lost jobs and their families? I don’t know how this could ever be viewed as the right decision. Even more discouraging is that there were other buyers interested in purchasing The Tribune before the Huntsmans’ supposedly philanthropic effort to “save” Utah’s…