It’s about time to ask that question again – the Chicago Tribune reported on Tuesday
and announced today
http://www.suntimes.com/9568345-417/chicago-based-investment-group-purchases-sun-times-media.html
that the Sun-Times is being sold to a local investment group.
The Chicago Tribune is itself locked in a 3 year long bankruptcy struggle that is doing little more than making lawyers rich…
December 12th, the publisher of the Saint Louis Post Dispatch and 48 other daily newspapers filed for chapter 11 drowing in over a $billion in debt it used to take over the Pulitzer newspapers…
The other day, I visited the local IGA supermarket and was greeted at the front door by a man hoping I would subscribe to the Connecticut Post, a hopelessly Democratic biased newspaper (but then again, I’m the odd one out in this State). My reaction was somewhere between laughing in his face or telling him the reason I would never subscribe to the paper. (The last time I subscribed to a physical newspaper was in the 1970s)
see:
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/GOP-snubs-middle-class-2418371.php
“Well, the Republicans just continue their political nonsense, and the leaders of this fiasco are John Boehner and Eric Cantor….”
That’s on the NEWS page, not the opinion page.
Is Twitter and Facebook and Youtube really an adequate replacement?
Having toiled as a denizen of the Fourth Estate as a news writer (reporter, like Jimmy Olsen — only much, much older), I consider newspapers to be like presidents. Some prove we really need them; others prove they are not necessary at all; still others demonstrate that we are better off without them.
Barry Soetoro and New York Times, for examples.
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