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My local paper - Editor arrested/ resigns

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Basil

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We have been subscribers to the Albuquerque Journal for decades. One thing I've noticed, which I suppose is a sign of the digital times, is that the paper has become increasingly thin over the years. These days my morning paper isn't much more than a thin pamphlet; a shadow of it's former self.

A few weeks ago, things got worse for our struggling paper when the Chief Editor of the Albuquerque Journal was arrested (and pled guilty) to shoplifting at a local Walmart. In addition, his kids were caught on camera drinking power drinks they had not paid for and leaving the empties on the shelves. (I've seen the video).

Sad state of affairs.

www.yahoo.com

'Journal' editor in jail after pleading guilty to shoplifting from Walmart

Sep. 27—The chief editor at the Albuquerque Journal was booked into jail this week after being convicted on a charge of shoplifting. Patrick Jason Ethridge, 47, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of shoplifting, according to a Rio Rancho Municipal Court database. The charge was...
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That is maddening. Watching local news (and human journalists) dwindling, in favor of rapid-fire web-based "newspapers" full of ads, pop-ups, overlays, and cookie-cutter non-local news for most of the pages is really awful. Same is happening to many (most?) paper publications, which now charge ridiculously high rates for real paper papers.

Remember when we could save a newspaper for reading later? With web-based news, it's gone in 24 hours. yikes.

Even worse when we read that the person responsible for the newspaper is in trouble with the law - and not for helping the newspaper.

Really sorry you're having this problem.
Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
Remember when we could save a newspaper for reading later? With web-based news, it's gone in 24 hours. yikes.
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We get both the print version and the online version and the online version is archived, so that's good.
 
I see the editor got 10 days in jail. In Massachusetts, that's a max $250 fine and no jail time. In fact, some DAs won't even prosecute misdemeanor shoplifting. It's hard to see the decline in local and indeed, national news reporting. Small city papers have been bought out by conglomerates. Reporting staff has been cut. Why print and deliver newsprint when online is so cheap. Anybody with internet access is now a "journalist" and can be someone with no journalism training at all. Standards of journalism have degraded from ethical reporting of both sides of an issue to just writing about one side that you or your publisher favor. Can you tell I was a reporter in the good old days?
 
Our local paper has been a real local newspaper in years. It keep going up on cost. Only good for our bird cages. Finally stop the subcribetion.
 
Our "local" daily paper is also a shadow of it's former self and the price is in the nosebleed section. It's really a big-city paper with a changed masthead. On Fridays it comes with a weekly paper of supposedly really local news. I've figured out we live in the most boring city anywhere - there is never any news about our city, which is the largest in the county, about 130,000 population.

I subscribe online to the paper from where I was born. I comes out weekly, they send me an email, is about 60 pages and is free. It has lots of ads, but I get more news than my "local" paper.
 
John Turney said:
Our "local" daily paper is also a shadow of it's former self and the price is in the nosebleed section. It's really a big-city paper with a changed masthead. On Fridays it comes with a weekly paper of supposedly really local news. I've figured out we live in the most boring city anywhere - there is never any news about our city, which is the largest in the county, about 130,000 population.

I subscribe online to the paper from where I was born. I comes out weekly, they send me an email, is about 60 pages and is free. It has lots of ads, but I get more news than my "local" paper.
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Yeah, our paper is priced ridiculously high too. Also, we used to have it delivered to our driveway by a delivery person every morning, but to cut costs,m they now mail our paper to us. This means we are always reading the news at least 1-2 days after the fact.
 
Basil said:
Yeah, our paper is priced ridiculously high too. Also, we used to have it delivered to our driveway by a delivery person every morning, but to cut costs,m they now mail our paper to us. This means we are always reading the news at least 1-2 days after the fact.
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We still get daily driveway delivery - most days.
 
When I was a kid, I learned to read from the Mami Herald. It landed with a big thud when delivered by the paperboy. I spent two months at a friend's house in Miami last summer recuperating from injuries and resulting surgeries. They got daily delivery of The Herald. It was quite thin and was not published every day. It took no time to read and there were no classified ads. Computers and the internet have really killed the newspaper business.
Bob
 
As a kid I spread the paper on the floor to read the almost three pages of the comic section - two of the Cleveland dailies had combined. I continued to read the paper spread out in front of me, still legs crossed siting on the floor. I spent several days reading the Sunday paper, comic section first, then the front page, then state and local section, then sports and finally the editorial pages. I read the opinion articles not to agree so much but to help decide what I believed. Those were the days... sitting on the floor and more importantly, getting up.

T.T.
 
I miss the smell of newsprint.
 
I used to read the local paper every day, when it was full of actual local, national and international news. But it went from 50 cents to nearly $5 for the daily edition and most actual news disappeared in favor of more local "human interest" type stuff. Just not worth it for the cost as I want to know what's going on in real news terms, not 2-3 pages on local youth and how they handle going to school.
 
Our local weekly paper folded about a decade ago. Now the closest we get is the Lawton Constitution and its far too expensive for what it is.
 
And I sure miss lying on the sofa, paging through the Hartford Courant or Boston Globe or NYT in the morning and on weekends - without staring at a screen which pours light directly into my eyeballs.

Our eyes developed over millennia by seeing indirect, reflected light - not light pouring straight into the eye. Maybe that's why my eyes feel "tired" much faster from reading news on the screen, than reading news in a newspaper.

grumble grumble
 
NutmegCT said:
And I sure miss lying on the sofa, paging through the Hartford Courant or Boston Globe or NYT in the morning and on weekends - without staring at a screen which pours light directly into my eyeballs.

Our eyes developed over millennia by seeing indirect, reflected light - not light pouring straight into the eye. Maybe that's why my eyes feel "tired" much faster from reading news on the screen, than reading news in a newspaper.

grumble grumble
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One of the better gifts my ex wife ever bought me was a kindle. It seemed like the perfect gift for an avid reader. Until, about a month after I got it I realized that the headaches I'd been having for a month began around the time I started using the Kindle. The screen was taxing my eyes to the point that it was giving me headaches. I went back to only reading printed books and the headaches went away.
 
I subscribe to the local paper.I still enjoy reading it while
drinking my morning coffee.I also enjoy the Jumble,& the
crossword puzzle.
They also run articles about Civil War related items.
 
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