Posted on 05/25/2018 10:46:37 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The San Antonio Express-News laid off 14 newsroom employees Wednesday and Thursday as parent company Hearst Corp. coordinates the operations of its newspapers throughout Texas.
Publisher Susan Pape attributed the layoffs to “economic factors” and a desire to combine the company’s resources across the state. She said the paper remains profitable.
The layoffs were spread across the newsroom affecting writers, editors and photographers on the sports, metro, features and photo teams.
(Excerpt) Read more at expressnews.com ...
I turn 60 years old in 3 weeks. I've been reading the Express News for 50 years. Well, actually I stopped subscribing to it about 5 years ago when it became almost totally irrelevant. But I miss it. I mourn the demise of this newspaper.
Back in the early 70's I was a delivery boy for the Express News. My engagement announcement in 1980? Published in the Express News. My parents and my wife's parents obits? Also published here. Back before the internet I wrote hundreds of letters to the editor. Most were published. Before Craigslist, I would buy 10 words advertisements in the want-ads to sell the cars I was buying at auction. Business was good.
Back when the Express News was more than just 10-15 pages (as it currently is) I would spend an hour or more each day reading it in full. Now? Now it is full of full page ads and junk mail inserts. And please. Please don't click the link to the site. Like most daily newspaper sites, it is going to take more than a minute to load as the crapware and ads load very slowly. And for what? There is very little news at the website. Mostly gossip and national news.
I guess my sad story is not much different than yours. Anyone else remember when reading your daily newspaper was a key part of your day?
Unfortunately, like everything else that liberals have gotten their hands on, it has turned to crap.
They were employing 14 actual journalists?
All print news is in danger of disappearing in favor of smartphone delivered custom news....................
San Antonio Express-News laid off 14 Fake News People.
“San Antonio Express-News lays off 14 journalists”
Newspapers that literally report yesterday’s news tomorrow are circling the drain if they want to keep printing the news. The world has moved on from printed news.
So should they.
Presstitution doesn’t pay. Go figure.
I remember when it was the San Antonio Light. I fact I have a coffee cup from the Light.
I have a relative - Tom Orsborn who writes for the sports section. I hope he made it through the cuts.
The shortage of bird owners is cutting demand for newspapers to line their cages.
We need more birds!
The Light was a separate paper. It lasted until the early 90’s. Then it folded leaving San Antonio with just one daily paper.
In fact, The Express was a stand-alone morning paper. The News was basically the afternoon edition. Back in the 80’s they merged and stopped printing a morning and afternoon edition and just went with the Express-News printed each AM.
Poor Alamo, your men died in vane.
A desire for a quick buck coupled with the MOST irresponsible “journalism” the AP can push out to all members. Sad.
That cannot happen soon enough.
Trumps goal should be to make the whole of the marxist MSM unemployed.
The Seattle P.I. switched to publishing on-line.
It hasn’t helped. Still sickeningly liberal...
So should they.”
It would be bad enough if that were their only problem, but they've become propaganda organs for the Marxist/ Socialists of the country at the same time. Rather that giving us the facts, they attempt to drive public opinion by manipulating what they tell us. So they've become irrelevant. My only question is, how to the continue to survive? I mean the NY SLimes has been reporting a declining readership of double digit percentages for years, and yet they're still in business today. It's like the Blacks killing each other in Chicago. You would think, over time their population there would decline either by folks leaving or by attrition and the murder rate would drop, but it doesn't.
If newspaper did news instead of propaganda people would by them.
Fort Worth is a conservative city but the loco paper is a far left rag run by out-of-towners from the coasts.
The American 30-minute-delivery, drive-thru, prime-time sitcom culture isn’t big on recognizing long-term trends but regardless of geography, city size, industry segments, etc. it seems that most local papers followed a familiar path to destruction.
To wit: these cities had thriving businesses with one or two particular companies or industries dominating and lending an identity to the region. Feeder businesses and others reinforced this image and most accepted, even promoted the ‘company town’ mindset even if they didn’t work for the company (or companies).
But through it all most papers criticized, sneered at, and actively undermined capitalism. They did the same with religion, family values, patriotism and any other virtue. They force-fed columnists and wire copy from the NY Times and Washington Post to their readers. Who was Molly Ivins and why did we give a s*** about her lunacy? Why were we seeing ‘analysis’ pieces that were badly disguised op-eds on the front page as news?
And, of course, any and all examples of ‘good government’ were held up as trophies. Schools, road crews, meter maids, etc. If you worked on the public dime you could do no wrong.
This corrosive, we-know-better attitude went on for decades. Some hardy souls would write letters to complain about it. Some readers would encourage the paper’s editors to reconsider their radical views and coverage. These requests were ignored or actively scorned.
In the absence of alternatives, little changed. But then Craigslist devastated the price-gouging classified section with its expensive agate type. The internet came along and we know the rest.
Still, the papers carried on whistling past the graveyard. Some just-occasionally-right-of-center papers brought in hard-left editors, many of whom came from out of town and couldn’t navigate the city with a map and a compass.
They reduced pages under the rubric of environmentalism. They cut back on local sports and began reprinting USA Today and other national idiocy. Most ‘reporting’ was done at a desk with a telephone or a computer. Press releases from every grievance group known to man were printed verbatim as stories.
In sum, they never changed their ways even as they claimed the moral high ground on the way to bankruptcy.
In NYC I used to get the morning paper to read on the train and the evening edition to read on the way home. When I was a kid I used to work at the local candy store on Saturday night putting all the inserts into the Sunday Daily News, then would come back Sunday morning to finish up. They paid me in comic books.
When I moved to SA I subscribed to the Express News. One day I read an article about Congressman Lloyd Doggett and I sent a letter to the editor about how this guy was a real POS. My letter was published. A week later I received a letter in my mailbox threatening me.
Ended my subscription that day. I was hoping someone showed up at my house just so I could exercise my castle rights. Unfortunately not..
I still get the local Sunday paper but that's it... the stories & slant are predictable as rain... and twice as boring.
A special hurricane edition was put out recently and the evacuation maps were so small and blurred it would be impossible to know know your evacuation level unless you were sitting the middle of a zone. Guess they had to make it small so writers 'could prance upon the newsprint stage' hoping for glory and/or praise. I guess that's worth some family making the wrong choice and staying in a dangerous area. There's no 'voice' beyond the group-think...like monkeys running the zoo.
And please, bring back the 'lists', financial tables, etc,
It 's not enough to just dazzle us with insights into why Trump is an idiot and why the people who voted for him are clueless...
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