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Posted on 03/11/2015 11:17:00 AM PDT by bkopto
Extra Extra! Just two years after purchasing the Orange County Register promising to resuscitate print media in America, Chief executive and Chairman, Aaron Kushner, and President, Eric Spitz, handed in their resignation at the paper and parent company Freedom Communications Inc.
After a symphony of staff reductions, furloughs, closures of the Los Angeles and Long Beach papers, and at one point actually having the reporters deliver the papers, the decimated company heads to the selling block.
Tuesday reporters assembled at the Orange County Register headquarters in Santa Ana awaiting the announcement. Kushner stood mostly silent, according to several employees who requested to remain anonymous for “fear of losing their jobs,” reported the Los Angeles Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Reporters as paperboys? I'd sic my dogs on them.
One of the few papers with a non-Leftist editorial page.
I hope they are able to keep it going. I don’t like the alternative, the Los Angeles Times.
” One of the few papers with a non-Leftist editorial page.”
This smells like a planned destruction of a conservative paper. A coup. I need concrete proof to believe otherwise.
Tears By Me Out The Heart.
The situation is so bad that the link goes to a 404 Not Found page.
I am sad... I actually won the guess the percent in the recall of 2003, got a bunch of OC Register logo stuff.
That makes it a bigger loss, to have been conservative. However, they must have seen the sweeping changes in how folks get their news today. I almost never buy physical papers anymore. I do miss knowing more about community news, but if I really wished to, that also is online.
Paper media will survive in small niche areas, but where ever Wifi exists, 80% will use their phones vs go to a news box (if you can still find one) and pay $2. for what looks like 00.75 Cents worth of paper and news.
The Orange County Register..was the paper I grew up with. Pretty conservative then....
My dad and I read it everyday.
Freedom also owns two papers in the Florida Panhandle, Ft. Walton and Panama City Beach.
Not much to them anymore.
Print media are in trouble everywhere, and the OC Register faced some additional challenges: they got into a spat with their home-delivery service, which led to people who had paid for papers not getting deliveries; the non-English speaking population of the OC (both Hispanic and Vietnamese) has been increasing; and the Los Angeles Times has been targeting the OC area.
Several employees who requested to remain anonymous for “fear of losing their jobs”.
Well what happens if they shut the doors & stop the presses? Will they still have jobs?
GOOD! I haven’t taken the rag for years due to their escalating promotion and support of illegals and illegal immigration.
If our electrical, electronics and/or communications infrastructure suffers a disaster, the situation could be all the more interesting. Imagine hundreds of tiny print operations spewing crazy conspiracy stories and advertisements for harmful drugs.
The situation is so bad that the link goes to a 404 Not Found page.
That was a link to the breitbart story. The OC Register website is still up: http://www.ocregister.com/
The only time I buy a dead tree paper is the occasional Sunday when I have the time to solve the NYT and Sunday crossword puzzles.
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