1) Whenever layoffs at media outlets occur, most people regardless of politics lament the loss of frontline jobs. But where is the line drawn on the organizational chart between those concerned mostly with propaganda and manipulation and those concerned with stories and deadlines? If a cub reporter uses terms like 'critics say,' 'experts say,' and the rest of the big book of cliches do we blame the editor, the VP or do we blame the reporter himself?
2) Unions are a hopeless parasitic anachronism. Not only have they failed utterly to protect jobs, salaries, benefits, etc., they have financially gutted their hosts.
3) Spare me the crocodile tears from president/editors, presidents, editors and anyone else talking about 'loss.'
4) Spare me also the 'the community lost important voices' rubbish. If the voices were important to the community, then the community would have paid to hear them. QED.
5) #4 ties in with the main point surrounding media shrinkage/consolidation: why do they ALWAYS point the finger of blame elsewhere - mostly at the readership? If McDonald's introduces a sandwich nobody really likes and about which many customers openly complain, does McDonald's tell the customers they are fools? Does McDonald's tell them not only is the sandwich staying on the menu, a more popular sandwich is being taken off the menu and oh, by the way, you'll also get a smaller order of fries costing more money? The media mindset of punishing dissent by serving up more of the same is Fascism 101. Yet columnists everywhere respond to job losses down the hall with a nauseatingly disingenuous expressions of wonder and equally disingenuous statements of how fantastic newspapers are, particularly the columnists themselves, and that anyone criticizing their faults: bias, a reliance on wire copy, a reliance on old news, a bizarre love of government in all its forms, an insistence on importing leftist coastal values to 90% of the nation that isn't leftist or coastal.
6) The Columbus Dispatch and the Cincinnati Enquirer were longtime relatively conservative papers, reflecting local values. The PD was always a bit Bolshevik due to the strength of unions and the prevalence of industry in NE Ohio. The Dispatch and especially the Enquirer dashed themselves to pieces on leftist rocks. The PD was a longtime employer of unreconstructed Marxist the late Tom Brazaitis - whose widow is Eleanor Clift no less. It also carried columns from the terminally smug lefty dilettante Connie Schultz - married to Sherrod Brown no less.
7) Nowhere is the mass psychosis of liberalism more evident than in the media. Virtue signaling and a lust for power (by squandering 1st Amendment protections and becoming mouthpieces for government) literally prevent them from taking any steps to survive.
The Pig Squealer has been a piece of trash for many, many years. They’ve endorsed every rotten racist candidate from the mayor to Valerie Jarrett’s assistant.
Trying. To. Care.
Nope. Can’t do it.
One solution, tried many times in many places, is to lie about the circulation numbers! LOL.
Magazines, Newspapers, who reads these archaic and ultra liberal rags? Next will be the CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC network news.
Who watches that trash? Advertisers are careful with their budgets. Lack of advertising will kill net work news.
Hooray!
One solution, tried many times in many places, is to lie about the circulation numbers! LOL.
Magazines, Newspapers, who reads these archaic and ultra liberal rags? Next will be the CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC network news.
Who watches that trash? Advertisers are careful with their budgets. Lack of advertising will kill net work news.
Hooray!
They mashed the boil and some puss ran out, but the head remains. So, reporters are let go, but the editors stay. How will anything change. The boil will now fester and collect more puss that will sooner or later have to be relieved again. Stupid is as stupid does.
I understand there are jobs open in the coal industry.
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with the leftist lies and distortions that they peddle as facts. Ever notice that leftists ALWAYS blame someone else when their ideas cause problems. It's never the bad idea itself