Next up: Portland, ME...the whole f*cking operation?

Who's going to expose the murder and corruption at Shawshank?

 

Found out after the paper cleared on Thursday morning that Friday would be the last edition.

 

Sorry, good sir Slappy. Didn't know/remember the details.

 

I do. Vividly.

 

FX, at least twice a week.

 

Sorry to hear that.

In my senior yearbook, my ambition was: "To own the Press Herald." Maybe that'll happen if I get enough money to buy it and resurrect it from the dead.

 

Mine was to edit The National. Imagine how I felt when the paper was dead by the time yearbooks came out.

 

Sad indeed. Portland's a great town. And that was, not long ago, a great paper for its size.
Still, I've got to think that talk is at least somewhat a negotiating ploy with the union. Southern Maine's not that bad off that it can't support a daily paper. Certainly not the first place I'd think a paper would fold.

 

I do wonder how, if at all, this specific situation would be different had the Seattle JOA issue come out differently a year ago or so (whenever the heck that was...I know I should know). Not to say I want/wanted the P-I to close (hell, I love that staff way more than the Times'), but I do wonder ... and the Times' can't be doing well either, what with Blethen having issues and McClatchy, well, McClatchy...

 

I find it hard to believe any chain would leave a 90K market to an alt-weekly and a glorified shopper-advertiser.

 

And don't forget the Dallas Times Herald. It was folded on a Sunday morning effective immediately and the writers in the field found out from the folks at the Dallas Morning News.

 

And yet, sums up your career in a truly prophetic way