OK, this is getting pathetic

An offshoot of the hyperlocal discussion, I suppose, but it's so ridiculous I felt like I needed to make another thread.

This is, as of about midnight Eastern, the front page of AJC.com, the home page of the largest, and theoretically most important, newspaper in the Southeast. Apologies for any primitiveness in the image, but I think you get the point.

How far are we going to go in dumbing down our newspapers?

 

I could have sworn that was a screen shot of my old paper's Web site. Sad, very sad.

 

I bet their single-copy sales, subscription renewals and starts, and ad revenue just went through the roof.

 

How fucking sad.

 

I'm just glad to see that buffet restaurant in Duluth didn't score a 15 again on its latest inspection. Wow.

 

At least it's not the front page of their paper. yet.

 

Give it time

 

Hey, coulda been a sequence of Furman Bisher head shots over the decades.

 

But the hit counts! Can you imagine the hit counts?!

 

And just wait until they get to the costumed cats. I mean, what's cuter than a regular cat? Why, a cat in a costume, of course.

 

Midnight isn't exactly a huge news hour. If you want to push some online-only, low-to-zero-news-value content that you can sell to advertisers, that's as good a time as any.