The biggest print media presence in the Lehigh Valley is the Allentown Morning Call. I keep its url in my favorites so I can read the news whenever I want. Last week there was a story about how their readership had actually risen about 9 % because of visits to their online content by people like me. That was the good news. The bad news is that actual paid circulation has dropped around 8 to 10 percent.
That was half the double whammy. The other half is that ad revenues are declining as well.
That means people are going to lose their jobs.
No reason to celebrate, no reason to goad, if you happen to be someone who disagrees with the Morning Call's Editorial practices.
Those employees who will lose their jobs are just like you and me, good people in a bad situation who are going to be in a tough spot. There is no joy in Trexlerton, only sorrow at the thought of so many facing possible unemployment.
I'm the not so mighty Casey, and I hate seeing others strike out.
Monday Morning Coffee.
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Chris, while I share your concern for the employees it would seem like the call did it to themselves.
Have you been misquoted in the paper, or had your comments chopped up, edited and pasted to put a certain slant to the story? I have and I know I'm not alone. That's just how it is, and every time one talks to a reporter from any where they take the risk. Some papers are riskier than others, Morning Call case and point, which makes the reader question the reliability of the story.
If the paper would just report the news and not try to spin it they would probably be fine.
SB, I understand your point I have been a victim of exactly what you are describing by certain blogosphere residents that the same paper promotes.
But I don't believe for a minute that anyone there deserves to lose their job. The economy is what it is, and I put myself in their shoes.
I empathize with them, I've seen far too many people lose their jobs in recent months.
Maybe those who establish the editorial policies that are destroying the paper should lose their jobs?
Conservative papers are growing. Liberal papers are going bankrupt.
Actually, Joe, for a healthy Democracy, I think we need news sources from all viewpoints.
Those that aren't viable, tend to die. Some might argue that is what happened here. I could see that point.
The whole reason Fox News is No. 1, is because they are balanced in their political coverage. It's obvious that Obama and the Dems hate Fox. That tells me everything I need to know. Let the main stream media go under. At least we can then choose what internet news sights we want to go to instead of being fed a steady flow of Marxist propaganda being portrayed as objective coverage of the news.
Stealth, I agree with you when you say we get to choose what to read. That which we continue to find credible, we will read, That which we don't we will ignore.
I felt somewhat honored to be originally included in the paper's "blogger Tuesday". But I stopped supplying content earlier this year. I discontinued that blog, mostly because I had other commitments and opportunities to pursue. But I did weigh in my objection to the affiliation they had with some comments and practices I felt thet should address.
I support their right to publish speech that I disagree with, my problem was they refused to print any kind of disclaimer that it was not their view, and the editorial board allowed some of the most brutal and disgusting hate speech in the comments imaginable.
All I asked was that they make a blanket statement saying they didn't support such venom, but they allowed it to go on unchallenged. So I took the opportunity to move on.
Those that read us give us credibility, whether they admit it or not.
Chris, one of my complaints is when the media becomes activists for a political party, do it openly then deny it. They make statements about conservatives that they would never make about liberals. This is why they are failing! It is no different than any other private business that produces an inferior product that doesn't sell. Those kind of businesses SHOULD fail. The sooner the mainstream media fails, the better for all of us. They are supposed to be working for us, not any politician or party.
Stealth, as a military veteran, I felt comments disparaging McCain to be inexcusable. Those who mocked his service angered me.
But I was also angered at those who mocked Obama's race. I would like to think that a majority of America is better than that.
When media entities promote such activity for financial gain (ratings) I find that disgusting.
Let those who sow such crap reap the crop. but it is unfortunate for those caught in the middle, such as employees merely doing a job.
Chris, what they did to McCain was trivial compared to what they did to Palin. What they did to Bush for almost 8 years was nothing short of irresponsible journalism, or should I say, hate speech which they claim only the right does. It's a shame that innocent people will lose their jobs because of what a few did but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I would not work for any of the main stream media outlets. I too, am a veteran and the left in the media has little regard for the vets. I saw that when I came home from Nam. They spit on us but glorified Jane Fonda and the V.C. Nixon brought the war to an end and they threw him out of office for attempting to dig up dirt on a sex scandal that was going on in the ranks of the Democrat party.
One more point: "That which we continue to find credible, we will read, That which we don't we will ignore."
We shouldn't have to discern what we read in the papers or see on cable news outlets. How are we supposed to know what is truth and what isn't? Even the negative remarks can be true, but how are we to know? The mainstream media is biased toward the left. That part is true and shows time after time. Example: Norva McCorvey, (Roe), is now Catholic and pro-life. That should be all over the news, yet we hear nothing. If a well known pro-life person changes to pro-choice, it would be all over the media!
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