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"Coverage about glitzy topics, whether it’s celebrities in L.A., tech or politics ... can gain national audiences, so there will always be demand for people to
by WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
"Coverage about glitzy topics, whether it’s celebrities in L.A., tech or politics ... can gain national audiences, so there will always be demand for people to produce that kind of journalistic content"
Sure. But I never understood why those people had to be employed by the same news orgs we depend on for worthwhile news. It made fluff an ever-present parasite, forever depleting a news org's scant resources.
- PaulHoule 2y agoI've been doing some business intelligence research with a friend which got me looking at annual reports from the like of Gannett who amazingly think they can tell stockholders their business is great and get away with it. Look at the actual paper and it's a different story. When we had a contentious school board election a few months ago all of the "alternative" papers in town had the results that morning, some even had it in the evening. The Ithaca Journal didn't have it in next day's paper and didn't have it on their web site until 2:30 PM the next day. Historically I've bought a paper to get electron results and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I've had people scoff at me when they saw I was carrying a paper because the paper seems to get a page shorter whenever you see it. The other day the Journal had a front-page story above the fold about how an obscure closeout retailer was closing four stores in towns in Upstate NY I never heard of. There's a movement to strike the Ithaca Journal as the "paper of record" for our town because it seems really unfair that they get the legal notice business while they aren't keeping up with our much more civic minded weeklies and web papers.