Not a word about the Readers, who may be fewer than the original news staff. I suspect that the Plain Dealer has behaving like most newspaper over the past 20 years. Their priorities was their union, fellow workers, and their political agenda. Once the readers and subscribers figured that out, they left. Our own Kansas City Star added another priority, they built a brand new expensive building so that they could become irrelevant in style. Stupid is what Stupid does.
The Dayton Daily News, for one, was a Midwest Pravda.
Actually, that’s a cliche unto itself for which I apologize.
What do we call ‘newspapers’ that print lots of words but refuse to print actual news ie facts? I’m speaking mostly of papers that purport to cover their home cities - with some scraps thrown to suburbs where the actual readership/advertising demographic resides - but refuse or actively avoid printing the unblinking details about crime and criminals? Most US inner cities are war zones abandoned after 5 pm or abandoned altogether yet their problems have been routinely ignored for decades - mostly by the very people claiming to be members of the same ‘community.’
Dayton Daily News, by the way, was all for making a brave noise about businesses and residents coming/staying within the city limits...until they built a production facility 20 mi south of those limits. Hypocrites will out.