Guess where the N&R print edition has the story on yesterday’s layoffs.
If you guessed B4, at the bottom, you guessed right.
Update: ConAlt weighs in:
They probably lined everyone up from left to right and decided only to keep reporters left of center. Maybe if the N&R was a better paper with greater objectivity, the layoffs would not have been necessary. But they don’t get it. People have lost interest in their paper because they drag out the same tired old themes. I suppose some people really do want to go out in flames, dying for the cause.
That’s making the broad assumption that there’s anyone right of center in the place. But ConAlt’s right about dragging out the same old liberal themes. It might be different if the paper produced some serious hard news reporting to supplement its ideology. But that just hasn’t been the case lately. As a result, readers have turned to alternative weeklies and blogs to find out what’s going on. No big secret.
Meanwhile, N&R staffers (unprofessionally, in my opinion) continue to wear their hearts on their sleeves. In the comments to ConAlt’s post, Jonathan Jones writes “way to minimize a real shitty day at the N&R into ideological crap,” while Joe Killian writes
I won’t chide you for using peoples’ real life job loss, peoples’ real life pain, to make a post that supports your ideological perspective.
You don’t know these people. I don’t expect you to care, particularly.
But I can tell you that you’re just plain wrong.
Keep it up, guys, and what’s left of this newspaper will have no credibility whatsoever.
Hey I’ve been through this. Looking back, I can honestly say it was one of the best days of my life when the GM of the now-defunct Triad Business News gathered us into conference room, shed a phony tear and told us to get the hell out.
We’re talking about outstanding journalists and outstanding people here. I’m confident they’ll land on their feet.
