Death of a Newspaper

I've always been ambivalent as to whether a newspaper needs to "endorse" a Presidential candidate. I can make up my mind, thank you very much. However, the way Silas Lyons backed out of endorsing a Presidential candidate in Sunday's editorial was incredibly lame, in my opinion. Below are all his lame excuses, followed by quite a healthy, heated debate in the comments section. Lyons: We'll sit out the presidential vote By Silas Lyons, Columnist ( Contact ) Sunday, October 12, 2008 Long-time readers will no doubt find something missing in the Record Searchlight this election season: a presidential endorsement. Has the paper lost its ... Read Full Story

Greetings, comrades. We here at Death of a Newspaper would like to take this opportunity to evaluate the Record Searchlight Wikipedia entry on a monthly basis. The last time we looked at it, there were still multiple journalists [ who had been fired ] listed as employed at the Record Searchlight. This time we'd like to focus on circulation numbers, and the actual PAID staff versus "volunteers." But, since all my embedded spies and embedded whackjobs , such as Philbert , have left the Record Searchlight building in straight jackets , I need your help to edit the Wikipedia entry. Here goes: Introduction The ... Read Full Story

I got scooped yesterday. Or at least that's what Projectile Comet is saying over yonder about beating me to the poop about Tim Hearden being fired from the Record Searchlight and being replaced by yet another monkey.... You can read Tim Hearden's version of the story here . But I'm not buying it. I don't think he's "leaving," I think he was fired . But that's just my own personal conspiracy theory , and not based on any real facts or research. I had received an anonymous tip* earlier in the week, and thought something might be coming down the pike. But alas, I ... Read Full Story

Well, since some of you won't be getting the Record Searchlight this morning until about 10:00 a.m., I thought I would go ahead and share the Record Searchlight's Typo of the Day (TOD) with you. Here it is: I love this on-line headline " Lassen Pines' water deeped OK after testing ." Wow? Water "deeped" OK after testing? Does that mean their waster was deemed to be deeper after testing? Cool, good for them. Disclaimer: Note, typo's often occur on this here blog site. However, I am a mere mortal citizen, and I don't have a paid copy editor. But who knows, maybe the ... Read Full Story

It seems that the word " obsessed " and " obsession " are getting tossed around rather frequently on Redding blogs these days. Here are Six Random Obsessions from the Redding blogosphere: 1. Here's Christy Lochrie, a self-unemployed reporter being " obsessed " with Large Marge, and hunting her down over the internet again (can you say cyber-stalking ?). 2. Here's Large Marge " obsessed " with her First Amendment blogging rights , as usual. 3. Here's Marc Beauchamp obsessed with the new dancers at Johnny's. (Just kidding, Marc!) 4. Here's Philbert , who is obsessed with his fear of Thom G . No ... Read Full Story