Who's staying, who's going at the ProJo?

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13 Comments

• old timer said:

  Baskt better take the money and run.  He is so out of touch it's sad. Buy the condo in Florida near Sox training camp and make a few bucks taking tickets at the park.  You'll get to see the games for free.

  July 28, 2008 8:35 PM

• joe bernstein said:

  "for free"-words to Charley like worms to a carp

  July 28, 2008 10:42 PM

• Ian Donnis said:

  People are bound to have their likes and dislikes when it comes to reporters and columnists. It's unfortunate, though, that more of those commenting from a partisan perspective don't recognize this as a further running-down (as is the case in scores of other cities) of an important civic institution.

  July 29, 2008 9:06 AM

• joe bernstein said:

  Ian-seriously,did you bemoan the loss of jobs for thousands of linotypists when printing newspapers went digital?A lot of things pass when their usefulness is over.Except for trolley cars and medicinal leeches,it doesn't look like many are making a comeback.

  July 29, 2008 3:34 PM

• Ian Donnis said:

  Joe, I recognize the march of technology. However, there remains a need for reporters to watchdog public and private institutions.

  July 29, 2008 4:27 PM

• joe bernstein said:

  Yes,Ian,no argument from me-it's the activity of a free press that is important,and not so much the medium.

  Network TV hasn't the time to do good in depth stuff it seems.

  Cable has a lot more "bandwidth"(I am sure someone will correct me),and so far they've been wasting it on tabloid crap.But the tools are there.

  Obviously,we are talking about the Internet as the substitute for "real"papers.It has madehuge inroads,but I don't think newspapers will disappear entirely,particularly Sunday editions.

  Don't you think the papers cut their own throats by going with online editions that don't get soaked in the rain or land in dogshit?

  July 29, 2008 6:22 PM

• Ian Donnis said:

  No one has figured it out, Joe. Part of the difficulty is how news consumers have come to expect news for free. As I point out in my forthcoming story this week, combined print and online circulation for most papers remains as high as the old print-only total, but they're making a lot less money, because Internet ads are cheaper and less profitable.

  July 30, 2008 9:02 AM

• Ted said:

  If only we were talking about reporters and not columnists I might care about the degradation of the newsroom at the Projo.  Ziner hasn't written a NEWS story the whole time she's been at the Projo and I certainly won't bemoan the day her 'activist journalism' leaves the newsfloor.  And she's just one easy example of reporters with agendas at the Projo.

  July 30, 2008 12:42 PM

• rhody said:

    Oh no, not the Reporters with Agendas Rag again.

    Ted, let's you and I tuck the liberal mainstream media myth under the covers and turn out the light.

  July 30, 2008 1:04 PM

• Ted said:

  Are you asserting that Karen Lee Ziner is a straight-down-the-middle reporter who just tells the story without any personal agendas?

  July 30, 2008 1:31 PM

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