Award winning journalist Laurie Garrett has decided to resign from Newsday and has written an impassioned resignation memo that Romenesko has printed in full today.

It's an amazing document, indicting her former employer's parent company and other media giants for destroying the news business. Garrett throws everything from Judith Miller's phantom W.M.D.s to the false accusations against Wen Ho Lee and Richard Jewell to CBS's bogus Bush memos into her fiery, galvanizing litany of how print and television journalism have lost their way.

A statement as powerful as this will surely act as a wake up call to somnambulant journalists everywhere, much like The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business, the memo-cum-mission statement Tom Cruise wrote in Jerry Maguire changed the sports agenting business...

Yeah, we didn't read it either. We were looking at InStyle's Oscar pix. Did you see this one of Pamela Anderson and Christina Aguilera? Hot!

Wait, what were we talking about again?

Dear Newsday Friends and Colleagues [Poynter]