Pretty dead on piece in my opinion.


https://t.co/mUm2UV8Ew0

(10-27-2016 09:04 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Pretty dead on piece in my opinion.


https://t.co/mUm2UV8Ew0

This sums it up about the Enquirer, It used to take me a half hour to 45 minutes to read my morning paper, now if it takes me 5 minutes I have been interrupted by something.

Great piece. He nailed it. The Enquirer is just brutal now. I refuse to read it anymore. Gannett / USA Today absolutely destroyed it. It's no longer a local newspaper. It's just a quick, sloppy slapped together version of USA Today with the same recycled opinion pieces and political garbage over and over.

Everyone (meaning the national media and democrats) tried to make a big deal of the Enquirer endorsing a Democrat in more than 100 years. They failed to acknowledge that this is probably the first time in 100 years that the newsroom and editorial board is full of progressives, liberals and millennials.

(10-27-2016 11:14 AM)Marcus Wrote:  Great piece. He nailed it. The Enquirer is just brutal now. I refuse to read it anymore. Gannett / USA Today absolutely destroyed it. It's no longer a local newspaper. It's just a quick, sloppy slapped together version of USA Today with the same recycled opinion pieces and political garbage over and over.

The consolidation of news media has been brutal to the newspaper industry from a quality standpoint. The other major issue with newspapers as a whole is nobody under 35 cares to get them. With news coming so quickly the role they played has kind of vanished. My best friend works for a Gannet paper in a different paper of the country and there is a huge focus now on digital and getting things up quickly. Digital layout is taking huge precedent over the actual paper. They've also had multiple rounds of layoffs since he;s been there (which I believe is less than 2 years). I really think the consolidation has compounded issues that newspapers were going to have to face with the advent of the internet and digital content. A couple big conglomerates are likely not going to be as innovative as the combination of say 100 independent city papers each trying their own things to adapt the the modern era.

Yes, an excellent analysis and essay. For many of us who grew up in Greater Cincinnati it's been the slow death of an old friend. I bailed on them about two years ago and I've never looked back; basically a conveyance for printed store coupons on Sundays.

"When a newspaper continually bashes the major local university for 20+ years you can’t be surprised when people stop reading it. UC is by far the biggest contributor to the local economy and that educated workforce sees right through The Enquirer’s click-bait headlines and poor journalism."

https://medium.com/@jbrinkmeyer/when-a-n....h8h51eyyf

Bingo

(10-27-2016 01:29 PM)BearcatBeta Wrote:  "When a newspaper continually bashes the major local university for 20+ years you can’t be surprised when people stop reading it. UC is by far the biggest contributor to the local economy and that educated workforce sees right through The Enquirer’s click-bait headlines and poor journalism."

https://medium.com/@jbrinkmeyer/when-a-n....h8h51eyyf

Bingo

Nailed it again.

Well, there is a slow food movement, maybe there will be a slow news movement.


The Press newspapers, also owned by Gannett, have well written and more intersesting local coverage than the Enquirer.

(10-27-2016 02:04 PM)OneUChoopsfan Wrote:  Well, there is a slow food movement, maybe there will be a slow news movement.


The Press newspapers, also owned by Gannett, have well written and more intersesting local coverage than the Enquirer.

He is dead center accurate. The Enquirer has turned to sh*t.

Certainly they have had to fight, like every newspaper, to deal with a radically changing advertising model. But they didn't have to become a dumping ground of liberal slanted, agenda driven BS.

Gee who could have predicted that would be bad for business.

Tell me the angle of a newspaper's liberal lean and I will tell you how well they are doing financially and be right almost every time.

(10-27-2016 09:04 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Pretty dead on piece in my opinion.


https://t.co/mUm2UV8Ew0

They have nothing going there. When 99% of your employees or management are far left progs why read it.

Great article. Dead on accurate.

Over the past 5-7 years I slowly faded from reading The Enquirer daily to not reading it AT ALL anymore. I never really stopped for one particular reason. It was just a slow fade from existence. When that happens its hard to put a finger on the exact reason. But this article hits the nail on the head for me.

The only time I even visit the Enquirer website now is when I mean to come on this one and hit down too many times on the autocomplete URL after I type in "cincinnati"

For a quick hit on the current local news, a person only needs to visit one of the local TV channels sites.

Cincinnati.com is a confusing, no news, bloated site aimed at empty headed millennials.

A restaurant critic named Polly? No thanks.