Sun-Sentinel Editor Assures Titanic Newspaper Passengers That Ship Is Not Sinking

NewsBusters ^ | April 11, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

My first piece of advice to any editor who wishes to reassure his newspaper readers that things are going to improve at his newspaper is to not accompany such an article with the grim visage of a mortician as you can see in this photo of Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel editor, Earl Maucker. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in his newspaper. And the words of Maucker, while trying to sound upbeat, are at odds with the reality of a newspaper which has shrunk to a shell of it's former self. Typically the the front section of the Sun-Sentinel weekday newspaper is now only about a dozen pages.

However, Maucker, in response to a reader's question about the Sun-Sentinel's future, performs a rather unconvincing job of reassuring his readers that we will not soon be witnessing yet another newspaper funeral:

[PJ-Comix]

LOL! I still can't get over that picture of mortician Maucker. If you check on Google, you will find that almost all photos of Earl Maucker make him look like a grim mortician.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[PJ-Comix]

Broward County FYI

[Tarpon]

Newspapers, afloat in the Bermuda Triangle ... Ghost ships circling endlessly, searching for a course.

Surly it’s not the leftard bias causing the listing.

[truemiester]

Used as a bird cage liner causes the birds to become constipated. The paper itself is not worth sh****g on.

[freeangel]

The Sun-Sentinel is not the only paper shrinking. The AJC is looking anorexic as of late also and it is funny that the editors lines are always the same—new and improved. Unfortunately, anorexia is a psychological disease that ends up killing the body, just as all the lib-thinkers of most major newspapers have done to their publications by not providing a balanced diet of information for their readers.

[martin_fierro]

I keep returning to this article from last month by Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. The importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread. Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will happen. Agreements on all sides that core institutions must be protected are rendered meaningless by the very people doing the agreeing. (Luther and the Church both insisted, for years, that whatever else happened, no one was talking about a schism.) Ancient social bargains, once disrupted, can neither be mended nor quickly replaced, since any such bargain takes decades to solidify.

And so it is today. When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to.

There are fewer and fewer people who can convincingly tell such a lie.

[count-your-change]

Today one of the most notable features of the Titanic is that it's on the bottom of the ocean. Did you catch that Mr. Good Ship Lolly Pop Editor? Its a little late to pass out life jackets and assign seats on the life boats.

But fear not, a simple yet dignified service is planned for your paper.

[clintonh8r]

Maucker is an idiot. As long as the SS persists in giving its readers pap and feel-good (or feel-guilty) stories about immigrants, minorities, homosexuals, etc., and demonizing hard working middle- and upper middle-class people (i.e.: people who can afford to patronize the SS’s dwindling roster of advertisers), the SS will continue to swirl the bowl and eventually end up in the sewer.

[plangent]

This is really pathetic.

All Maucker does is to list all the cuts that have been made, sort of like listing the dismembered part of a dead carcass.

Then he lists all of the dependencies his paper has set up.

Not one....NOT ONE..idea about reforming content and ditching the liberal/collectivist poison that is killing this rag. Not one...NOT ONE...idea about how a paper media can compete successfully with the electronic media —other than an early am TV show.

Gaaaaak!

[kjo]

What IS clear at this point...is that leftwingers will not change their views about conservative press access as long as they remain in charge.

They will go through backruptcy first, last, and always.

This isn’t about profits and loss with them...it’s about ideology. These folks came out of the J-schools in the seventies and eighties...learning about Woodward, Berstein, and the evil Republicans...IT IS WHAT THEY WILL GO TO THEIR GRAVES BELIEVING!

There is not room for compromise with “evil” for them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

San Jose Mercury News is really shrinking. The “Perspective” section is gone. I think the Business section is a separate section only a couple days of the week and stuck behind Sports the other days. Page size shrank. They put half-size pages in the middle of sections which are impossible to turn.

Like most papers, the “Hate Bush / Love Obama” trope never changes. Never once during the campaign did the paper investigate who Obama really is (as if anybody really knows).

And, yes, they too always shout “New! Improved!” as they circle the drain.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The lowest caste in Hinduism is the lowly washer of the dead.

[FormerACLUmember]

Portrait of a constipated lying liberal deceiver on the way to a richly deserved end of career.

The end cannot come soon enough for these dishonest rags and dirtbags like this.

[Seaplaner]

I recall when the Sunday "Merc" was such a huge paper that you had to be careful trying to pick up the whole edition. Want ads were more than one section.

This was during...hmmm...oh yes. The REAGAN years!

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[GladesGuru]

“Portrait of a constipated lying liberal deceiver on the way to a richly deserved end of career.”

You are truly a forgiving Christian, writing in the spirit of the Easter season.

On the other hand, I am from a rather more rigid background. I believe that those (journalists, educators, ad nauseam) who aided the cause of communism are treasonous individuals.

Communism was tried by the Pilgrims and it killed nearly half of them. It is antithetical to, and irreconcilable with, the Constitution.

Only when treason is properly punished will it be suppressed. Until then, nations hostile to us will buy officials in both bureaucratic and elected offices.

As such, any official who acts against their oath of office, and supports communism or any other form of attempted destruction of the Constitution, must end their ‘career’ with execution.

Clinton and “Ears” are two examples of bought elected officials. Lest one think I hold that only Democrats have been bought, unfortunately,El Presedente Jorge Boosh was far too close to Fox and the Saudis.

PS Drawing and quartering is the traditional execution for treason, not merely “end of career”.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Do you remember the “Careers” section in those days? It alone was bigger than most other city newspapers.

[dennisw]

Soon the Sun Sentinel will be a website that happens to publish a newspaper

[boughtwithaprice]

“Recently, we announced to the staff that we are going to shut our operation in Havana, Cuba. It was a tough decision, but our limited resources now must be focused on more local coverage.”

So news that’s acceptable in a Communist-controlled country is now just going to be here in the US

[Hiddigeigei]

The end cannot come soon enough for these dishonest rags and dirtbags like this.
He'll end up with a teaching position in a university.