good riddance i say, save for the lost jobs. the chronicle has been a shitstain of a paper for years, and an oddly conservative one to boot, considering its market.
I hope it works. It's a great paper and a nonprofit would actually be able to shake loose of what binds so many other media sources, or at least, that's what I'd hope for.
@jobsworth: Do they actually need them? It's an honest question: I personally still like to buy the Daily Telegraph here in the UK, despite its drastic decline in journalistic standards, because I like to attempt the crossword then use it for firelighting, and because it says something about my personal politics when I carry it into the pub or leave it on my coffee table. But are there any serious arguments for print media over online alternatives that are relevant in the modern world?
@Not The Red Baron: No. But, look, 90% of the argument is just habit. Why spend extravagant sums stamping out a harmless herb and imprisoning those who smoke it if we encourage tobacco which kills four million and more annually? Habit. Why continue, for that matter, a drug war which has consumed billions and killed thousands to maintain or raise the street price of coke? If you calculate factors behind wars, pollution, and golf, you end up with, it's the way it's always been done. That's what maintains newsprint.
Long ago and far away (say the late Eighties ?) the Chronicle ended the practice of ending every Front page story on the Back page of the first section. That Cafe friendly
format, Mr. Caen, Mr. Deloplane et. al and a reasonable "Anti-Mr. Sharon Stone" truthful style of Journalism made the Chron an exceptional daily paper. I miss the days when I trusted the Media.
@scarcat: As I recall, Caen and McCabe were one-page wonders. I think Caen also had as a page partner a famous womens' underwear ad, upon which he commented sometimes, but this is only memory. I think the placement of the columns was most likely contractual.
Sometime somewhere there will be a 14th Amendment spiel about print newspapers. The brief will be irrefutable. "Look, the shlubs out in the neighborhoods do not know what's good for them, so it's up to state and federal agencies to provide it by taking their tax dollars and spending it on elevated culture. We do that for opra, ballet, symphonies, and public radio and teevee, so why not newsprint?"
I would buy it at the price of "What I have in the change jar" and then make it really, really, small...like 20 or 30 pages tops because the problem with newspapers is not the papery-ness but the fact that there is so much in them that is not news. I might even pay for a small, well done local paper if the crap had been scooped out. Oh, it must have a "police blotter" because that is the best part of any paper.
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format, Mr. Caen, Mr. Deloplane et. al and a reasonable "Anti-Mr. Sharon Stone" truthful style of Journalism made the Chron an exceptional daily paper. I miss the days when I trusted the Media.
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Sometime somewhere there will be a 14th Amendment spiel about print newspapers. The brief will be irrefutable. "Look, the shlubs out in the neighborhoods do not know what's good for them, so it's up to state and federal agencies to provide it by taking their tax dollars and spending it on elevated culture. We do that for opra, ballet, symphonies, and public radio and teevee, so why not newsprint?"
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