Thanks for prodding us, Jim. Just subscribed to the independent Baltimore Banner. I urge everyone to seek out independent news sources in their area and support them with their dollars.
Robert When I was a kid l sold Sunday Globes ,Record Americans,Heralds even the Boston Post ,all but two of these papers, The Boston Globe and the Herald,a mutation of the Record American,and the Herald,exist today.The Globe which I lived next to is struggling mightily, and the Herald is a right wing ghost of its past,which is a very good example of the kind of thing happening today to the papers mentioned,sports are a day late if played after 8 pm., but the cost is the main thing $ 4.50 a day.for a paper that was a dime for decades.Now it’s a joke,I only get it for the obits and the puzzles, and I got a one year deal for $ 16 bucks a month,circulation was the reason for this, I was told by the sales man soliciting customers that they had to keep up the illusion of being viable for the paper to continue to exist,for any amount of time,more likely to get paid more when they gut it totally.I’ll miss the old rag when it’s gone.It was a good contrast to the Globe ,I never lived in a one paper city.
The movie Wall Street depicted exactly what you commented on today. The Healthcare industry is also being taken over by big corporations. They own the clinics, pharmacies and hospitals. Talk about price fixing!
To a grammar-pedant like myself (and one who ages ago worked for the Toronto Star), above & beyond every vile aspect of the Gannett gutting of the North-American newspaper-world, the easiest way to notice the fall of journalism (if perhaps the most-trivial) is to try to read past the numerous spelling-mistakes, grammatical errors, sentence-fragments, and non-sequiturs in articles that are clearly not the fault of the writer - whomever that writer might be - but the unintentional by-product of an overworked and underpaid staff of wage-slaves having to cut & paste too many articles in too little time to too many "local" and "regional" papers. Microsoft Word can't correct everything.
Another money man pillaging the company & destroying 1000s of people livelihood. This is a bad example free to do this because he's one of the many baby boomers the young with were dead.
I knew local news papers were disappearing but it seems worse than I knew. What happened to our anti trust laws? We "common everyday citizens"better wake up soon". We outnumber the elite now deciding how our lives will be. The power is there. Why haven't we used it to elect people who will actually represent us? It's downright frightening!
Capitalism at it finest. Richard Brautigan, dead beat poet had the best comment on this in his poem called Negative Entropy He would sell a rat's asshole to a blind man for a wedding ring.
Thank you Jim. I get scared thinking that while Gannett is indeed a monster, it's all we have on our "side"; the alternative being all-electronic news (social media) which I can't abide.
So this is the man behind the destruction of the weekly Cambridge Chronicle, it used to be a source of news about Cambridge--they barely covered the elections to the City Council in 2021.
Thanks for prodding us, Jim. Just subscribed to the independent Baltimore Banner. I urge everyone to seek out independent news sources in their area and support them with their dollars.
Great stuff to promote union solidarity in Rochester, NY!
Robert When I was a kid l sold Sunday Globes ,Record Americans,Heralds even the Boston Post ,all but two of these papers, The Boston Globe and the Herald,a mutation of the Record American,and the Herald,exist today.The Globe which I lived next to is struggling mightily, and the Herald is a right wing ghost of its past,which is a very good example of the kind of thing happening today to the papers mentioned,sports are a day late if played after 8 pm., but the cost is the main thing $ 4.50 a day.for a paper that was a dime for decades.Now it’s a joke,I only get it for the obits and the puzzles, and I got a one year deal for $ 16 bucks a month,circulation was the reason for this, I was told by the sales man soliciting customers that they had to keep up the illusion of being viable for the paper to continue to exist,for any amount of time,more likely to get paid more when they gut it totally.I’ll miss the old rag when it’s gone.It was a good contrast to the Globe ,I never lived in a one paper city.
The movie Wall Street depicted exactly what you commented on today. The Healthcare industry is also being taken over by big corporations. They own the clinics, pharmacies and hospitals. Talk about price fixing!
To a grammar-pedant like myself (and one who ages ago worked for the Toronto Star), above & beyond every vile aspect of the Gannett gutting of the North-American newspaper-world, the easiest way to notice the fall of journalism (if perhaps the most-trivial) is to try to read past the numerous spelling-mistakes, grammatical errors, sentence-fragments, and non-sequiturs in articles that are clearly not the fault of the writer - whomever that writer might be - but the unintentional by-product of an overworked and underpaid staff of wage-slaves having to cut & paste too many articles in too little time to too many "local" and "regional" papers. Microsoft Word can't correct everything.
Another money man pillaging the company & destroying 1000s of people livelihood. This is a bad example free to do this because he's one of the many baby boomers the young with were dead.
I knew local news papers were disappearing but it seems worse than I knew. What happened to our anti trust laws? We "common everyday citizens"better wake up soon". We outnumber the elite now deciding how our lives will be. The power is there. Why haven't we used it to elect people who will actually represent us? It's downright frightening!
Capitalism at it finest. Richard Brautigan, dead beat poet had the best comment on this in his poem called Negative Entropy He would sell a rat's asshole to a blind man for a wedding ring.
Thank you Jim. I get scared thinking that while Gannett is indeed a monster, it's all we have on our "side"; the alternative being all-electronic news (social media) which I can't abide.
So this is the man behind the destruction of the weekly Cambridge Chronicle, it used to be a source of news about Cambridge--they barely covered the elections to the City Council in 2021.