Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Monday, March 13, 2006
As McClatchy's morons prepare to risk financial ruin, a "report" tells us what we obsessive news consumers already knew: that the hacks are doing a bad job worse. We are not surprised that online news consumption has "leveled off"; there are only so many masochists. Nor are we surprised that the hacks are all covering the same things; we've said that before. Where we're of two minds is re this "public interest" biz. We'd like to see more serious news, but when the hacks do serious news they mean conservative/Republican bashing news. And as we said the other day, they increasingly do serious news only when they campaign for awards.
P. S. The CLATCH is selling off twelve papers. TRANSLATION: The new GanNETt! P. P. S. Scant Bidding for Knight Ridder Tells Story of Decline P. P. P. S. The CLATCH hits a 52-week low!
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