McClatchy layoffs?

You got some kind of problem with Huey Lewis?

 

Gotta be willing to walk away. I suspect, had I held the line and insisted on cancelling, I could have gotten my monthly rate waaaaay lower than I did.

 

I remember when this paper was the equal to Dallas. Stayed in Arlington in 2001, my first time in the Metroplex, and I was spoiled rotten. The sports section in the DMN was at least 25-30 pages every day. Fort Worth had fat sports sections, including an eight-page high school pullout EVERY DAY.

These sections could make you smile. Nowadays, they can also make you cry.

 

I was working for the Star-Telegram back then. We had three zoned editions that each had their own separate daily local sports section (The Sports Zone) -- Arlington, Northeast Tarrant and Fort Worth -- in addition to the main sports section. Just the Arlington sports department was the biggest sports staff I had ever been a part of up until then. We had a beat writer for each of the Arlington and Mansfield high schools, another for the Grand Prairie schools, another for private schools, plus one for UT-Arlington and a columnist.

It was amazing.

 

I remember reading that, like three decades ago, DMN sports department had 30 staff writers.

And a shitload of editors and designers, too. That, my friends, was truly the golden age of newspapers.

 

And don't forget that the Dallas Times Herald also had a superb sports section until the late '80s, when it no longer could compete against the Morning News and went into a death spiral. Couldn't go wrong reading any of the sports sections in that metro area for most of the '80s.

 

The only newspaper I'm paying $80 a month for is one that has tomorrow's stock prices today.

 

A big problem. He's terrible.

 

I'd rather have the paper that has the winning PowerBall and MegaMillions numbers ...

 

You think that's what you'll get, but you really just end up getting sucked into a bunch of mysteries, people whining about how they need your help, and trying to prevent end of the world scenarios.

 

Bump.

Sacramento loses sports columnist.

 

Anyone and everyone who stays too long at the ball is at risk of having their jobs turn into pumpkins.
And the ball has been over for a while.
Those able to or permitted to exit on their own terms a dwindling number.
Always a shame, never a surprise.