Posted on 09/30/2005 5:57:12 PM PDT by Temple Owl
The Inquirer and Daily News have announced plans to cut some 100 writers and reporters along with other newsroom employees.
That is 16 percent of staff. Falling advertising revenues and circulation are blamed.
Actually, sheer stupidity and arrogance could account for a good part of the declining circulation.
I have tried over the past months to save the Inquirer, but alas, the left-wing, liberal commissars there have refused to follow my advice and accept my aid.
They continue to preach to the choir.
Anything and everything bad is "Bush's fault."
Tony Auth is even calling Katrina "George's Hurricane."
Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett said, "as long as I believe we are doing great journalism, I'm going to stay and fight like hell." But she added, "We are going to have to rethink ourselves."
You say that, Amanda, but you do not really mean it. You are not doing "great journalism." You are simply serving as a house organ for the Democratic Party.
I'm laying odds that Auth and Trudy Rubin will still be there when they turn out the lights.
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A Stratford, Conn., man charged with leaving his girlfriend to die after his car ended up in a Stamford pond has been sentenced to three and a-half years in prison.
Francisco Loaiza, 30, had pleaded guilty in July to second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, Loaiza was driving a Nissan Altima at more than 85 miles an hour when he lost control of the car and drove into Holly Pond.
His passenger, Kristina Kalganova, 21, died of head and neck injuries.
Reports that he will move north to Massachusetts and run for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat when he is released have not been confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at zwire.com ...
Do you read the Inquirer?
I expect Newsday to bite it in less than a year, and then all the newspapers in Boston should go to be replaced with a local hard-copy advertising device of some sort.
Actually I think the internet has a great deal to do with the declining sales of newspapers. Why should people pay for yesterday's news when they can get up to date news for nothing on the net.
I hope they all go broke and take NBC and Katie Couric with them.
Too bad it didn't happen in Chappaquiddick. They'd have made him a Senator.
The *preacher*???? LOL!
Surely you mean, invoke their devil master.
That is 16 percent of staff. Falling advertising revenues and circulation are blamed.
Wish that we could help them die quicker.
I get all the information I need from the internet and a hardcopy of the NY Post:)
I think you are right, but he has a point when he blames "sheer stupidity." I think that has a lot do with it too. The Inquirer insults its readers every day.
"Actually I think the internet has a great deal to do with the declining sales of newspapers."
The only thing a local newspaper can do better than any other newspaper is local news.
Of course, none in the news room like covering the local high school football games, or the local county commission, etc.
Not even for the sports.
Most of us do. I read the Inquirer just to see what the other side is up to.
Really ?????
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That's right, our local papers are really good and conservative. They are loaded with news you don't get on the Internet.
Want to go to the Inky tomorrow and carry signs that say, "Bias = Layoffs". And "News = Security" ?
More recently the Journal stable of publications was collapsed into a single "daily giveaway" news compendium. It's supported entirely by advertising, and has no local orientation.
Springfield Times makes periodic appearances, but it's not a daily. There may be some others like it, but there's more local information to be found in Val-Pac envelopes.
They'd simply ignore me!
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