Six papers descend into CNHI hell

The six papers to be sold are: News-Times of Danbury, Conn.; The Daily Star of Oneonta, N.Y.; the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; the Santa Cruz Sentinel in California; The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa.; and the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Michigan.

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Oh, man. A friend is editor of one of those papers. Poor bastard.

 

Let me echo Frank. A good friend works at one of those papers. Fortunately, he's already looking to get out.

Too bad about The News Times too. That was always a solid small-town paper.

 

My first boss now works at the Record-Eagle and I know a few people there... It prides itself on being THE paper in NW Michigan... poor bastards...

 

Well, at least they didn't get sold to JRC.

Sort of like Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938: your choices are to be overrun by Hitler, or Stalin.

 

No, in a sense it's worse.
Worse you ask?
Yeah. These Northern papers aren't going to know what hit them. And, in Traverse City's case, the area's affluent aren't going to stand for it for long.

 

Sunbury is a good paper with good people. Sorry to hear the news.

 

Well, what are they gonna do? Oakland County, Mich., has some of the highest per capita income in the nation, and they're putting up with the JRC ass-raping. I mean, everybody can't cancel their subscriptions all at once; it takes at least a couple of months to run all your readers off.

 

A friend of mine is editor at one of those papers, too. Yikes.

 

Of course, the only real competition TC has in NW Michigan would be Manistee and Ludington. And TC doesn't even hit those areas very hard.

 

how is it that chni can afford to be buying papers? i thought they were having problems with financing on quite a few of the papers they already own. did i just have bad info?

 

well, in the narrow knowledge I have, they've accrued the finances to do on this kind of thing because they're so horrifyingly cheap when it comes to anything involving, you know, people who work there.