End of an era: U-T presses cease (San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | June 15, 2015 | Michele Parente

[EveningStar]

They were a part of history, bringing the biggest news events — from Watergate, to the 9/11 terror attacks and raging local wildfires — to San Diegans’ doorsteps.

And now, the presses at The San Diego Union-Tribune are themselves history, with the final print run in Mission Valley coming to a close at 1 a.m. Sunday.

Starting with Monday’s paper, the Union-Tribune is being printed in Los Angeles, a byproduct of the U-T’s sale last month to the Tribune Publishing Co., parent company of the Los Angeles Times.

[EveningStar]

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[South40]

Tough deal. I know people who will be losing their jobs.

[BenLurkin]

When the global network of interconnected computers goes down, and billions of terabytes of data are lost forever, mankind is going to have no idea what anything in the world is, where it came from how it got there, or how to build it.

[Cicero]

Very expensive looking modern building. Maybe Jerry Brown will buy it with borrowed taxpayer money and turn it into a Museum for Defunct Fishwraps.

[tumblindice]

Get in UT. Next stop, TV news. (Driver Brian, what's that ... smell?)

[dalereed]

It's obvious and I hate it!

My paper has always been delivered at 4:00 am plus or minus 10 minutes.

With it being printed in Los Angeles it's not being delivered until later than 7:30 am.

[SevenofNine]

My late grand uncle was paper boy for that newspaper so sad that ending

that way of the business these days

[Wallace T.]

The Wikipedia article indicated that the paper was once conservative, but under the most recent ownership, “skewed to the middle,” i.e., turned into another liberal rag. This is the same history of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and a host of other newspapers, including the Hearst chain. Good riddance, and looking forward to the day those two newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News, etc., go into oblivion, or at least becoming just additional web sites competing with thousands of others.

Some complain about web sites like InfoWars, Natural News, and Lew Rockwell, and they are sometimes absurd. But no more absurd than the MSM, which says men (Bruce Jenner) can be women, whites (Rachel Dolzeal) can be black, male sexual deviants may be trusted with young boys (Boy Scouts), and that anti-Christian, anti-American racists (Dylann Roof) are conservatives.

Perhaps conservatives should define themselves as reality based thinkers, and call liberals, socialists, and anarchists fantasy based dreamers.

[WilliamIII]

I’m more concerned that the Pennysaver recently went out of business.

[Popman]

I haven’t read a print newspaper in eons...

Do people still do that...?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I used to be a carrier for the Union-Tribune. Not as a youth paperboy, but as a adult I delivered the paper.

The papers would be delivered to our distribution center in the middle of the night. The trucks delivered the papers from the printing center in Mission Valley.

Now that they will be printed in L.A. and trucked down every morning, I would expect delays in delivery due to traffic, bad weather days, much more frequently than you have experienced in the past.

Perhaps this is a sound business decision on some level, but, having to depend on long distance deliveries each and every day could easily cause delays in delivery to the customer.

[rigelkentaurus]

the only thing these left wing newspapers are good for is to pick them up for free and use them to:

1. clean windows
2. line bird cages
3. start fires at a campsite or fireplace

Might be other uses - but reading them is not one of them. It is only dis-information and propaganda.

[Kozy]

UT goes to LA and the Chargers are on the next van. UT I liked, the Spanos are blood suckers

[truth_seeker]

The LA Times closed the Orange County printing facility in 2010.

[oblomov]

I remember when the Chicago Tribune and Indianapolis Star were staunchly conservative papers. As late as 2002, the NY Times editorial board opposed the minimum wage, utilizing the argument of Milton Friedman for this stance.

[Pelham]

There is something very peculiar about the Pennysaver bankruptcy. The founders sold it to a hedge fund less than two years ago and I find it not credible that Open Gate LLC didn’t know what the books looked like when they purchased it.

[5th MEB]

Thy are good for spreading over your work bench when you will be using a lot of PVC glue, bearing grease, or other such messy compounds.
Makes cleanup a breeze.