This blog is mainly about the spectacular train wreck at The Sacramento Bee and its parent company, the McClatchy Company. But I also post about current events, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, politics, anything else that grabs my attention. Take a look around this blog, hope you enjoy it.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Saturday Nov. 22 -- Got news or a question?
If you have news or a question, leave it in comments.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Please, board of directors, DO SOMETHING. This operation is collapsing before our eyes, and we get nothing _ NOTHING _ from Sacto. No advice, no encouragement, no discouragement, no plans. NOTHING. Please, bosrd of directors, ask what these people are doing to justify their paychecks, other than driving down the stock and turning control of this company to the banks that hold the debts.
The arrogance of these college educators, no wonder newspapers are on life support. How do they justify these expensive educations for an ever diminishing career opportunity? ---------------- Philip Meyer's book: 'The Vanishing Newspaper, Saving Journalism in the Information Age' Meyer teaches journalism at the University of North Carolina.
Excerpts: [“newspapers are too smart for their readers.”]
“Today's journalists, already the most educated crop of reporters and editors ever, need more ongoing education so they can interview with sophistication, research with understanding and report with credibility, but when it's time to write, [shed the sheepskins and scribble their stories at a sixth- to eighth-grade level,] a range he identifies as the sweet spot of newspaper readability.”
2 comments:
Please, board of directors, DO SOMETHING. This operation is collapsing before our eyes, and we get nothing _ NOTHING _ from Sacto. No advice, no encouragement, no discouragement, no plans. NOTHING. Please, bosrd of directors, ask what these people are doing to justify their paychecks, other than driving down the stock and turning control of this company to the banks that hold the debts.
The arrogance of these college educators, no wonder newspapers are on life support. How do they justify these expensive educations for an ever diminishing career opportunity?
----------------
Philip Meyer's book: 'The Vanishing Newspaper, Saving Journalism in the Information Age'
Meyer teaches journalism at the University of North Carolina.
Excerpts:
[“newspapers are too smart for their readers.”]
“Today's journalists, already the most educated crop of reporters and editors ever, need more ongoing education so they can interview with sophistication, research with understanding and report with credibility, but when it's time to write, [shed the sheepskins and scribble their stories at a sixth- to eighth-grade level,] a range he identifies as the sweet spot of newspaper readability.”
Post a Comment