Old Detroit Free Press motto:
“It is a newspaper’s duty to print the news, and raise hell.”*
New Free Press motto:
“A newspaper’s duty is to digitize, and enliven downtown.”
* Editor’s note: Oh, come on! This motto was coined by a onetime Detroit Free Press editor, but not for the Free Press. In 1861, former Free Press editor Wilbur Story used the “raise hell” slogan for the Chicago Times. We must be fair to the Free Press, which did not operate under the “raise hell” banner.
