Down-sized columnist on the state of newspapers

Scripps newspaper in San Angelo, Tex., fires a longtime editor to cut the budget. He fires back in his final column...

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jan/03/columnist-caught-up-in-newspapers-changing-times/

 

Well done, Perry. Well done.
Classy and well presented.

 

I wonder if he would have let one of his underlings write that type of column after letting them go. He speaks a lot of truth. Newspapers need to drastically reinvent themselves, but they're not going to do that without a massive investment similar to Gannett's launch of USA Today. That paper was in the red for several years before turning a profit.

 

Why didn't he write that column about all the other people who got shitcanned for the bottom line? He had to wait til it was all about him?

 

Yes

 

That and these sorts of columns are boiler plate these days.

 

Good column. But Scripps cut good people? Color me shocked!

 

Sad but true.

 

At least the paper had the stones to run the column.
I can think of a couple different places where the publisher had those kind of columns spiked.

 

Publisher: "What the fuck do I care as long as the sudoku puzzle is four columns wide and all the coupons are there? That's all people want anyway."

 

A well-written farewell. Too bad the people who made the down-sizing decision don't read.

Fuckabuncha-Wall Street-Italian-suit-wearing-investment-analysts.

 

The more I read these things, the happier I am at my family-owned paper.