Monday, May 24, 2010

If it's a Gannett newspaper, that's gah-NET ...

... as in net irrelevance pursuant to the hurried abandonment of journalism in favor of pandering to a vanishing readership as a glorified advertising circular. If anything about this smells like the C-J's bridge envy, and its shameless advocacy of this region's all-time great transportation boondoggle, you're free to draw perfectly appropriate conclusions.

Cincinnati Enquirer abandoning city interests, by Randy A. Simes (UrbanCincy blog).

The answer to that may lie in the conversation I had with a content editor at the Enquirer three years ago where he said, “We tell the stories our readership wants to hear.” Encouraging right? The Enquirer does not care about providing fair/balanced news coverage, they care only about their bottom line and telling the story they feel their readers want to hear.

2 comments:

Joshua Poe said...

"The Virginia-based Cincinnati Enquirer." I am thankful that the Atlanta-based blog, UrbanCincy, brought this to our attention.

Joshua Poe said...

Saying the Cincinnati Enquirer "abandoned city interests" is like saying Rand Paul abandoned the social justice movement.