I have become a public critic of the Morning Call. Some of you may be surprised to know that although my name will only be seen in that paper for an obituary or crime victim report, neither of which I'm anxious for, their staff and management regularly read this blog. I communicate with the reporters and the management, and occasionally, one of them even starts the dialogue. Recently I emailed a reporter to complain about some choice of topic being reported upon, and got this reply.
Thank you for your email. I've been furloughed by Tribune Publishing for the week of July 19-25, during which time I cannot check or respond to emails or work-related phone calls. If you have a news tip, please email news@mcall.com. I look forward to responding when I return.Tribune mother ship seems to be imposing a financial time out more and more on the paper's staff. Some readers of this blog, and of a facebook group that I also administer, hope that some local investor(s) will take over the paper, and make it more reflective of their perspective...That's not going to happen. It may be eventually purchased by another national media chain, but I doubt that their modus of operation will be any different. I also doubt that there would be a change of personnel, except perhaps even less employees. As in marriage for better or worse, we are stuck with this local paper. I for one hope that it continues in business. I am informed by the local coverage and realize that far too many cities our size no longer have a local paper.
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The employees will get a lesson in the free market, if you disrespect half your readers and become just another democrat propaganda outlet. Do you really think people will continue to support you?
ReplyDeleteToo much political propaganda there. Mostly taken directly from ultra liberal, corporate conglomerates like Washington Post. Serves no real purpose to me. Some of that garbage is insulting because of inaccuracies and deception. Give us useful, local information about where we live, work, and play. About the people who share our own environment.
ReplyDeleteThe assignment for the optional stories, such as profiling the "leaders" of the local BLM groups, come from the editor(s). Likewise the editor(s) decide to suppress criticism about local sacred cows. The reporters themselves come and go. Corporate media is concerned with bottom line economics, not the quality of journalistic decisions of individual editors. Today they are just managers, expected to get out a product.
ReplyDeleteMy family moved from Ohio to Allentown (All American City) in 1977. We enjoyed shopping downtown at Hess's and Leh's. And family enjoyed sharing Morning Call on Sundays.
ReplyDeleteNow we rarely venture downtown and there is no Sunday rush to read the Morning Call. Sadly, both are just great memories.
Our city and our final paper have both gone to shit and I don't see any fixes coming. Very sad for sure, but we will survive without them.