Comments on: Washington Post Closing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles Bureaus

By: timzank

timzank — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:58:47 +0000

Econ 101. If people don’t buy your product, it’s because they don’t like it or they don’t need it.

See:
Newsweek
Time
Atlanta Constitution
Wapo
NYT
Chicago Tribune

The list goes on and on.

By: Jim R

Jim R — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:50:52 +0000

I guess it’s safe to say the Post stacking it’s editorial pages with right wing war mongers, or the Times serving as Judith Miller’s vehicle for Iraq WMD lies, repeated on that Sunday by Cheney on the teevee, gained them little traction with the right.

The American people want honest journalism, whether it hurts the right or left; when they get back to that and accept facts have a liberal bias maybe they’ll recoup.

By: Chuck Varrick

Chuck Varrick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:54:53 +0000

When the NY Slimes and the Washington Post are no more then I will celebrate. Until then I choose to ignore what they say no matter how many times they attempt to lie about it. Our citizenry has finally seen the light with regard to the nonsense they’ve published for years. All the lies, half-truths and embellished stories have finally taken its toll on their companies. The only truth out their today is the truth one finds when doing research on the computer. Don’t rely on one source, rather rely on multiple sources. I love FOX News because I do think they’re more fair and balanced than CBS, NBC or ABC and CNN. Yet FOX does slant its stories from time to time like the others but not as underhanded. I read them all and I think for myself. I trust very few sources yet I try and read as much as humanly possible. This I know, our country is in trouble because we elected an inexperienced US Senator, State Senator, Agitator and Community Organizer to the highest office in the land. He rarely if ever accomplished anything noteworthy. But he was half black the liberal zombies thought because he was half black it counted for something. Electing him has turned out to be a bigger joke than electing Jimmy Carter and yes, George W. Bush. Lets elected a business person next time and not another Lawyer. People listen to me, obama is a failure simply because he was never a winner. You can’t go electing 40 something year old men without experience or you end up with people like Harry Reid and Nancy Piglosi running your country. In a way zombies it was a noble experiment to elect obama but remember the term Caveat emptor next time if there is a next time.

By: ChrisNH

ChrisNH — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:16:58 +0000

So a bunch of workers at The Post will be out of a job. Now they’ll be able to draw unemployment checks from the wonderful Obama administration that they helped cheer into the White House. The wonderful thing about a high unemployment rate is that it doesn’t care how you voted. There are a TON of ‘Obama lovers’ on the unemployment line now. Which of them are really happy about that and which ones aren’t?

By: Fidoohki

Fidoohki — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:03:54 +0000

Brian Killame I think…Sadly I watch Morning Joe. Anyway it’s a sad state of affairs.

By: b.j.

b.j. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:18:39 +0000

Magister,

There’s already a Chicago office, so perhaps using the CNC is a way for them to not overload their current staff, hire new staff, and get local expertise, or some combination of those.

By: JunkJunk

JunkJunk — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:29:41 +0000

Tina,

You must be talking about the brown-haired guy who’s not Steve Doocy…

;-)

By: TinaFromTampa

TinaFromTampa — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:25:35 +0000

I know I speak for DOZENS of Americans when I say I get everything I need to know from “Fox & Friends.”
If I don’t get it from Steve, Gretchen and the other guy, I don’t need to know it!

By: MartiniShark

MartiniShark — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:14:46 +0000

“Here’s our new business model in a word – STRINGERS!”

With the Times moving work down to Florida we may have to rely on The Arizona Republic for serious national coverage pretty soon.

By: Magister

Magister — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:37:14 +0000

I'm having trouble quickly finding the link, but I'm pretty sure that I recently read about a New York Times effort in Chicago(?), where a gaggle of laid-off print reporters would put together a regularly scheduled section for their local market. Of course the Times has national distribution, so I assume it's a way to boost subscribers in that market, but it also sounds like a backhanded way to underwrite a "bureau". And of course there's always the HuffPo method - Get people to write for free.