tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3003710004370268179..comments2024-03-28T01:35:19.028-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Some covering fire in defense of the TribuneNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31652637835193782682020-02-10T14:47:11.279-06:002020-02-10T14:47:11.279-06:00At the moment, Chicago is still a two-newspaper to...At the moment, Chicago is still a two-newspaper town.Be happy the mighty Tribune is still breathing, at least for the time being. Even the Twin Cities still has two newspapers. Here in Cleveland, we have been a one-newspaper town since 1982.<br /><br />In the Nineties, and even for most of the Two-Thousandsies, the Cleveland Plain Dealer was still a decent paper that cared about its city and its readers, who had nowhere else to turn. I used to call it the Pain Healer or the Pain Feeler. But as time passed, it became more like the Cleveland Daily Birdcage Liner.<br /><br />Good writers got the axe, or took buyouts. Whole sections disappeared. Now, like the Incredible Shrinking City, the PeeDee is probably the same size, most days, as a suburban weekly--or those NINAs in Hinsdale and Woodstock. I imagine the same thing is also happening in Chicago now.<br /><br />Print journalism itself appears to be going the way of so many of the very tools that journalists employed daily, things like phone booths and cameras with film, and tape recorders. How many folks on planes, trains, and buses read newspapers anymore? Will they even care, in the age of Orange Julius, if newspapers finally go away? Not so much. They have their bread, and their circuses, and their ubiquitous "devices."<br /><br />I had a recent phone conversation with a J-school student (Yes, they still exist). She graduates in June. She also majored in rehabilitation counseling. Which makes her a helluva lot more intelligent and pragmatic, especially about the vicissitudes of Real Life, than I ever was at 23. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78826310540224254912020-02-10T14:29:46.920-06:002020-02-10T14:29:46.920-06:00One assumes the Tribune, like Daniel in the lion&#...One assumes the Tribune, like Daniel in the lion's den, will survive but fears that the editorial content will become more Foxlike. I do read it and, although the editorial stance continues to tend right wing, the opinion writers, the Greek guy excepted, seen pretty middle of the road. <br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2851650577942775882020-02-10T10:17:39.026-06:002020-02-10T10:17:39.026-06:00Fortunately, Chicago has many sources of informati...Fortunately, Chicago has many sources of information other than the Tribune. NPR's "On the Media" discussed the small towns in New Hampshire that used to vote at midnight and whose electorate had dwindled to zero. The newspapers in such burgs don't have the staff to even report the weather and traffic; all they get is national coverage, press releases run as is. Pretty soon such papers will be as reliable as Pravda.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50796703872663908722020-02-10T09:31:57.150-06:002020-02-10T09:31:57.150-06:00I agree that having two papers is a boon for reade...I agree that having two papers is a boon for readers and for the papers themselves. Also wanted to mention that I’ve thought the accompanying artwork on your blog very strong this past week or so. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75833318970654449462020-02-10T02:29:46.983-06:002020-02-10T02:29:46.983-06:00Briefly a Tribune subscriber during the Murdoch er...Briefly a Tribune subscriber during the Murdoch era, i havent visited the old relic's pages in a long while. With that said, it would still be a horrible sign to see the end of the challenge of that "other" side. Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.com