'Cincy Post' Staffers React to Shutdown Notice

Editor&Publisher ^ | July 17, 2007 | Joe Strupp

[ConservativeStatement]

NEW YORK Although Cincinnati Post staffers were expecting today's announcement that the paper would cease publication at the end of the year, several newsroom employees admitted the final blow is not easy to take.

Members of the 52-person news staff said they were not surprised at the decision by E.W. Scripps Company to fold the paper when the joint operating agreement with Gannett Co. Inc., owner of the rival Cincinnati Enquirer, expires Dec. 31. The JOA's demise had been decided three years ago when Gannett exercised an option to pull out.

"We were surprised it took this long to announce an official date," said Peggy Kreimer, a 34-year veteran reporter. "It is nice to know that at least we will not get closed down in August or October. I think it is a money-making decision. We would like to think decisions are made by the heart and not the pocketbook. But I don't think the Post can go it alone."

Tom O'Neill, a three-year employee and current education reporter, agreed: "No one is surprised at all, but still for some people the finality of it is hard. "

[Pharmboy]

EVERYONE should have Cincinnati chili before they meet their maker...Scroll down the site to see the definitions of the number types...When I lived there we had Queen City and Skyline Chili...I used to bring it frozen to NYC when I came back for Christmas.

[Pharmboy]

Some of my friends tell me they have even seen Cincy Chili in Supermarkets!

[Gondring]

???

[Gondring]

And so the FR Ostrich Brigade marches on, insisting that it’s liberalism that kills newspapers, and not illiterate America.

[Gondring]

If they have quality reporters and editors, they will quickly find new jobs in journalism.

Doubtful.

[Milhous]

Blame Inet "heterarchies"¹ instead of American illiteracy for killing the newspaper.

In a survey last year, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found only 23 percent of people under 30 read a daily newspaper, compared with 60 percent of older people.

The number of people going online for news, or getting their fix from cable television, was growing, the survey found, a trend that was also hitting traditional television network news.

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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch citing research that 44 percent of people in the 18- to 34-year-old group use an Internet portal daily, while only 19 percent of them open a newspaper.

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the most cynical news baron could not dismiss the way that ever more young people are getting their news online. Britons aged between 15 and 24 say they spend almost 30% less time reading national newspapers once they start using the web.

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[1] A "heterarchy" is a system in which each individual rules his own domain. In contrast to a hierarchy ruled from the top, a heterarchy is a society of equals under the law.

[HoosierHawk]

Thanks for the link.

[Pharmboy]

I passed a Skyline in Ft Looterdale on Federal Hwy a few weeks ago and could not believe my eyes! I was going to meet someone for dinner a mile or so south, otherwise I would have made a U-turn and had a 4-way.

[decal]

“Really though, It’s good chili, but it won’t be what some from the Southwest think of as chili.”

True; it’s not what we call “chili,” but it’s very much like another Mexican dish - mole. I’ve always wondered whether there was a connection.

[Suzy Quzy]

It’s still THERE????? OMG....it was there when I lived at Inverrary in 1980 I think!!

[Milhous]

In January 1977, 80 million persons participated in a shared experience ... the broadcast of the miniseries "Roots." We were a country which shared experiences because that's the way our media worked.

Paraphrasing Gilder - an exalted mass culture squeezing an entire nation's consciousness through only 3 channels.

These are difficult times for even healthy newspapers. It is not a time to invest in starting virtually from scratch what would amount to a new newspaper.

Simply put, if cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed. - Warren Buffet

Choice is everywhere. Media, instead of drawing us together, split us into smaller and smaller slices, indulging our individual interests, instead of our collective interests.

Does anyone really care to indulge the interests of the author's darling collective borg?

Prometheus Unchained, a common symbol for the awakening and freedom of mankind.

[Domangart]

Done in by the widest trash haling service in the country, the USPS.

[chadwimc]

My wife makes a Skyline dip with canned Skyline chili. It includes sour cream and some other stuff. It’s meant to be eaten with corn chips. I think the cans have the recipe on the inside of the label...

[Gondring]

If you believe that people obtaining news from the web are obtaining the same material as was provided in a newspaper, then I think you’re mistaken.

[Milhous]

People obtaining news from the web get material that differs substantially from opinion trying to pass for news that MSM promulgates in its self styled role as the great authoritarian adjudicator. That’s the point.

[VOA]

Thank for that link to the Cincy chili recipe.
I’m gonna’ try that out sometime soon.

[Pharmboy]

It’s a slice of heaven. The guys that invented it were the most important Macedonians since Alexander.

[Gondring]

But you are missing the fact that it’s not just the MSM going down.

Plus, primary news gathering is not replaced by bloggers.