Chicago's Charles Lipson: Sites "like Substack, host hundreds of serious columnists, including some, like Bari Weiss, who was driven out of the New York Times newsroom for apostasy. John Kass, until recently the Chicago Tribune’s most prominent columnist, left the paper for similar reasons and started his own website. Weiss and Kass are hardly alone.... The days of general-interest local papers like the Memphis Commercial-Appeal are gone. Those of big-city papers like the Chicago Tribune are fading fast."
Fake News Fraud Tribune Is Now Pushing Recession Denial Democrat Talking Points – Chicago Tribune
Old Joe
3 years ago
It’s the 8th Wonder of the World how the Fibune manages to stay in business as a going concern. It’s expensive when you consider that you’re going to pitch it in the trash that evening. What advertising manager would spend his company resources advertising in the Fibune. What is the target audience demographic he is trying to reach? Seriously, how many people are out there who lack critical thinking skills but have discretionary income for the product the advertising manager hopes to sell? Last of all, why would anybody read that rag when they constantly tell their readers what horrible… Read more »
I respectfully say that Lipson is somewhat understating the extent to which wokeness has contributed to these papers’ problems. When you insult the right-of-center half of your addressable market, you lose readers.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Fake News Fraud Tribune Is Now Pushing Recession Denial Democrat Talking Points – Chicago Tribune
It’s the 8th Wonder of the World how the Fibune manages to stay in business as a going concern. It’s expensive when you consider that you’re going to pitch it in the trash that evening. What advertising manager would spend his company resources advertising in the Fibune. What is the target audience demographic he is trying to reach? Seriously, how many people are out there who lack critical thinking skills but have discretionary income for the product the advertising manager hopes to sell? Last of all, why would anybody read that rag when they constantly tell their readers what horrible… Read more »
I respectfully say that Lipson is somewhat understating the extent to which wokeness has contributed to these papers’ problems. When you insult the right-of-center half of your addressable market, you lose readers.