Posts Tagged “Journal Gazette”

Sylvia Smith is bemoaning the fact that the Stutzman campaign reached out to Fort Wayne Community School teachers and offered them a chance for students to participate in a political campaign.

A Stutzman field worker contacted the schools and obtained teacher’s email addresses and then offered them an opportunity to allow their students to work as volunteers. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jim Sack

Ben Lanka missed a point this morning in his political column in the Journal. His error, while slight, gave me time to think about the media in Fort Wayne.

Ben chided the mayor, Tom Henry, an old-family Fort Wayner, for referring to State Boulevard as State Street. So? Most of the old-timers in Fort Wayne, most who have been raised here would know it that way, not just as State Boulevard. Point for the mayor flub for the out-of-town reporter. Ben, however, is a very nice guy, works hard at his craft, but blew that one.

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If anyone outside of Fort Wayne is following the story on Tom Henry and the Fort Wayne folly called Renaissance Square, they must be getting a chuckle as Henry whips out his mojo.

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I just received a link to this from a friend.

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Update at the end of the post.

Today, we’ll take a look at the Journal Gazette’s circulation numbers. As a follow-up and to be fair, down the road a bit we’ll feature the News Sentinel’s numbers.

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The last post was about the 911 consolidation. The Journal Gazette had the story at 12:40 p.m. WANE has the story at 11:32 a.m., at least according to their site. They’ve been know to fudge the times of a articles release on their web site. Indiana’s News center has yet to post anything.

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Friday I received an email from a reporterette with the Journal Gazette requesting an interview. Since the Journal Gazette is famously known for taking interviews out of context, I plan on declining as soon as I post this.

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Everyone has their hand out these days, including newspapers. Of course the proponent behind this is a democrat.

Frank Nicastro – (D), who represents Connecticut’s 79th assembly district, is asking the state government to do something to salvage The Bristol Press, a paper that may fold within days, along with The Herald. The papers’ publisher, Journal Register, is in danger of being crushed under millions of dollars in debt, and can’t afford to keep them open.

Then let them close. Let them die a miserable death. The local newspapers are not even worth buying anymore. The News Sentinel is a shadow of its former self, and the Journal Gazette is heading in the same direction. If the Journal Register is being crushed from millions of dollars worth of debt, a handout will only delay the inevitable

“The media is a vitally important part of America,” Nicastro said, particularly local papers that cover news ignored by big papers and television and radio stations.

Is that right? Why then does the local “old” media constantly check the blogs for stories, sometimes even claiming they have an exclusive when in fact a local blogger did? They (Journal Gazette/News Sentinel) won’t even give attribution to local blogs when they cite them.

But, relying on the government has raised ethical questions for the press, whose role has been to operate without government influence and media experts predict that 2009 will be the year that newspapers will “die” in wake of the financial meltdown.

This has nothing to do with the “financial meltdown”. Newspapers are old hat, and they know it. Dwindling readership, falling subscriptions and advertisers moving towards new media are all part of the problem.

Former Miami Herald Editor Tom Fiedler says that a democracy has an obligation to preserve a free press. More here.

That is unless you’re a conservative talk show. Then the democrats want to silence you.

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