Clock Ticking at the Sun-Times
Joy
It gives me great joy to announce to you who have not heretofore read it…that the “Sun-Times” newspaper group LOST $168.8 million in the third quarter with ad sales DOWN 19%. It will be sad to see Sneed go but she’ll make tracks back to the “Tribune.” Other than that it’ll be so fulfilling to see the following turned out on the street: the obnoxious, brash, loudmouthed secularist and anti-Catholic Neil Steinberg who never tires of reminding us he is an obnoxious, brash, loudmouthed, secular anti-Catholic…
…Mark Brown who will be relieved of his deadly dull foundry-style work of commenting on city news in the most unexciting, prosaic and unimaginably style-less prose extant…Carol Marin who soon will be deprived of drawing conventional conclusions after many others have in earlier pieces (Emanuel was a good choice!) in cliché sentences and down to only two news commenting paying jobs where she can easily crib her thoughts from other liberals, on NBC and WTTW…Stella Foster who only got her column because she was Kup’s secretary and who uses it to salute her black pals…Mary Mitchell who will have to take her hate whitey campaign to other venues. Zay Smith whose charming Q-T is biting, provocative…and for the life of me I don’t know where he’s going to land because the “Tribune” has no sense of humor…
…Rev. Jesse Jackson, that great exemplar to the black community replete with extortion, illegitimacy-siring and hate, who will have to let his ghost writer go…I would be sorry to lose Steve Huntley but he may be ready to retire anyhow…I would also miss David Roeder on the business page but definitely not the bubble-gum chomping adolescent religion columnist who is incapable of growing up, Cathleen Falsani..nor Bill Zwecker…probably Hedy Weiss. Roger Ebert may have garnered prizes for his movie reviewing but he is a dim candle next to Joe Morganstern of “The Wall Street Journal,” and Morganstern is not a frustrated political commentator. Most of all in the no great loss category would be editor Michael Cooke who drove this enterprise into the ground, after he was fired as editor of “The New York Daily News” where they stopped him from doing the same thing just in time, dogged in his attempt to make it a black chauvinist paper (which blacks saw through as a cynical and dishonest device and didn’t reward with their patronage).
The extraordinarily good ones will find work-Fran Spielman, Lynn Sweet, Pulitzer prize winner Jack Higgins and the investigative staff–replenishing the anemic “Tribune” for a time. But only for a short time until its billionaire sugar daddy Lucifer with slit eyes, red-rimmed hair and goutee will board his motorcycle and WRRRRRROAR off leaving corporate toady R. Bruce Dold free to go where he belongs to Hill & Knowlton where he will continue doing what he has been, taking orders.
Speaking of Newspapers…
Michael Miner in this week’s “Chicago Reader” reports on a talk about the future of newspapering delivered by veteran journalist John Darnton who spent 40 years at “The New York Times.” In short, the future is behind it and both the “Sun-Times” and the “Trib” are likely to be out of business replaced by Internet journalism. But eventually Darnton’s old NYT bias came through. Miner: “Internet journalism is good at aggregation, linkage, documentation and verification-for instance it can demystify an unknown like Sarah Palin. But when the truth is buried, he said, the blogosphere doesn’t dig.” Sarah Palin, ah there’s a subject destined to warm the cockles of liberal hearts. Of course, Sarah Palin. When the truth is buried, the blogosphere doesn’t dig. Unmentioned was how bloggers unveiled a signal journalistic fraud circulating with CBS News and Dan Rather. As well as the entire disgraceful CBS story to vilify George W. Bush. Darnton just happened to forget to mention it. And Miner didn’t think to mention it either in his column.
I refer to the sleazy attempt of Dan Rather of CBS to circulate the tale that George W. Bush was absent a lot during his Texas Air National Guard service. False documents were foisted on Rather by Mary Mapes which caused her dismissal and Rather’s ultimate departure. Conservative bloggers checked the accuracy of the typing on the so-called reports and found they were fabricated. Not a mention of that by Darnton. In the pre-Internet days the Mapes-Rather story would just have been put on the air without verification.
Darnton sounds like a typical NYT product-so cross-eyed Dem liberal he can’t see straight and does not even think of mentioning this significant triumph for the blogosphere. I’m rather surprised Miner didn’t think of it himself as he’s a reputable journalistic product. But when you work for a lefty throwaway like “The Reader,” you can get careless.
Then, before I forget it…this gem. “Darnton worries that a `generation of illiterate news consumers’ will be created, consumers who don’t know how poorly they’re being informed because they’ve forgotten (or never knew) what good journalism was.” Did he mention this with a straight face without cracking up? With his paper neglecting to focus on the stunning example of a Democratic veep candidate with two prior brain aneurysms telling Katie Couric how FDR steadied the populace after the stock market crash of 1929 by going on coast-to-coast television? Instead concentrating on Palin’s wardrobe? And he worries about illiteracy? What a laugh.
The Progressive Independent Voice of Chicago reflects the political will that ‘corkscrews’ everthing it touches into the loam.
There must not be a great deal of money in spitting on the readership.
I never imagined that the day would come when Chicago would lack quality daily newspapers.
I miss the Daily News.
This is a hate-full article.
My recollection is that Mr Roeser is a Republican operative masquerading as a journalist who lives in that alternate universe where facts are merely impediments to the Republican talking points of hate and distortion.
That gang usually claims a corner on morality, and as Bill Maher might say, “religulosity.” Where is your human compassion?
Mr Roeser, time and tide are passing you by. The Republican party and the hate mongers are fading fast. Please get on the ship before it leaves and keep your schadenfreude about people losing their livelihood in the dark corners of your dark spaces with your friend Dick Cheney where it can be buried.
Yes, I am human, are you?
I suspect the Sun Times will die soon and that the Tribune may become a once a week, on Sunday, newspaper with updates on the internet.
Time will tell.
It’s a sad day for journalism. I remember great stuff like the “Mirage Tavern” series on corruption back in the 70′s. That’s “when dames was dames and newspapers was newspapers.”
The Mirage Tavern series brings back memories… those days are long gone…
According to the Associated Press, The Tribune Corporation (which includes the The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times) lost $121.6 million in the last quarter.
One would think that the LA Times would have sold the videotape of Barack Obama toasting Arab leaders to the highest bidder to raise some badly needed cash. Like the Chicago Cubs, the value of that asset has diminished recently and I do not think that it will fetch as much on the market today.
Hank Browne — can’t any Leftie posters stick to discussing the details of the article instead of spewing the typical Kos off-topic template?
Why not you?
Can not this be printed?
Changed to Voice dilevery to iPhones (podcast)?
Hire some of the others?
Promoted the good sence?
Can you not come up with something as clever as beer can (name your animal here)?
It is not paper/ink/politics/slant that make a paper but the honest examining of ideas and events.
The sun times is in the same company as NYT and trib and reader.
Arise old Phenoix, not not pay the man in the ferry boat and journey the Styx without a try.
Has anyone at the Sun-Times considered making the paper complimentary. It would certain increase readership, and thus advertising dollars. Is there any other way to save the Sun Times?
Watch for the Dem Congress and Pres. Obama to ressurect the fairness doctrine to stiffle conservative talk radio and come up with a gov. bailout of major(liberal)print media. The money will be distributed according to the dictates of the Obama administration. The rationale will be that the daily newspaper plays too vital a roll in Democracy to let it die. Of course, after the gov. bail out, the willingness of these papers to critize the leftists or point out the corruption in places like Chicago will be, shall we say, “chilled.”
This is most unfortunate. My dog is paper trained and prefers the Sun Times.
What an idiotic piece, especially the bit about Dan Rather and Bush’s military service: CBS was never more than a latecomer to a series of stories spearheaded by the Boston Globe and then later, the Associated Press, showing that indeed Bush was absent a lot and inexplicably from his Texas Air National Guard service. The CBS story was never more than a sloppy, me-too report that really focused more on an interview with former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, who helped Bush get into the Air Guard to avoid Vietnam service.
And the only viable thing that the tech challenged conservative bloggers found (proportional printing was actually common in military memos in those days and even earlier, judging by what can be found of them on the web) was that CBS was spineless and other news organizations research challenged.
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