This Wikizine has been created mainly to explore the reasons and to find the best brain trusts around to contribute stories/ideas/solutions in hopes of finding unique ways in solving some of these falling newspaper circulations, loss of...
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This Wikizine has been created mainly to explore the reasons and to find the best brain trusts around to contribute stories/ideas/solutions in hopes of finding unique ways in solving some of these falling newspaper circulations, loss of readership and other media problems.
If you're looking for a job within the newspaper industry this is the place to be.
Happy Birthday, No Phat Chicks! A year ago today I launched this rude and boorish blog. I was driving back from San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon, and I received a phone call from a friend asking me if I had received a letter from the Record Searchlight attempting to ban me from commenting on Redding.com because the comments were "upsetting" one of their "journalists." I explained to my friend that I had not received such a letter. In turn, I learned that another friend had. I was... Read Full Story
Here's a comment that was recently posted in response to Tim Hearden's recent blog posting.... It's written by my accomplice in the No Fat Chick episode last June:
"It may have been one thing if Ms. Lochrie had been personally involved in the matter about which she blogged on redding.com , but she was not. Ms. Lochrie at best wrote about what she believed happened or what she heard happened – even though it was completely incorrect - and at worst misrepresented the facts to serve her own... Read Full Story
You know, I was going to play nice. However, since Tim Hearden used his E.W. Scripps Redding .com blog to call me " Redding's version of Rosie O'Donnell," I've decided to remove my kit gloves and let it rip. So, does everyone else see the resemblance between Tim Hearden's face on Redding .com and this add for Bubba Teeth ? I sure do. Tim Hearden , you're a horses ass in my opinion and you are my least favorite Record Searchlight so called "reporter." In fact, I might start a new blog just... Read Full Story
First Amendment Watch
First Amendment protects Calif. woman's 'rude, boorish' blog
By The Associated Press
Sunday, February 24, 2008
REDDING, Calif. — A local court official has found that a blog that mocks a Northern California newspaper reporter is "rude and boorish" but is allowed under the First Amendment.
Christy Lochrie, a reporter for The Record Searchlight in Redding, sought a restraining order against her former friend, Beth Doolittle-Norby.
Doolittle-Norby writes a blog... Read Full Story
Three major meetings will take place in Europe over the next nine days: a meeting of the G-20, a NATO summit and a meeting of the European Union with U.S. President Barack Obama. The week will define the relationship between the United States and Europe and reveal some intra-European relationships. If not a defining moment, the week will certainly be a critical moment in dealing with economic, political and military questions. To be more precise, the meeting will be about U.S.-German... Read Full Story
RIP: Rocky Mountain News shuts down; can the Newspaper Industry Recover From this Chaos? By Marc Chamot The future for newspapers is getting gloomier and gloomier as the days go by. After the San Francisco Chronicle claimed $50 million in loses last year, the Rocky Mountain News shut their doors with only $18 million in losses. It’s a far cry from the $50 million that the S.F. Chronicle claimed that they had lost, but sadly, the Rocky Mountain News still shut their doors. What made E.W... Read Full Story
Being a White Male in America, is a Crime to Some Media Folks; Atrocious Contempt of White Males by Hearst Corp and a San Francisco Chronicle Writer: By Marc Chamot Quote: “You might think you were in the 50s, and white males rules Sunday public affairs shows.” The San Francisco Chronicle ’s journalist Joe Garofoli a writer for the Randolph Hearst owned San Francisco Chronicle, has one big problem with white men and their Sunday TV news shows. His article entitled American Media, Sunday news... Read Full Story
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Shuts down its Presses; a Sorry Randolph Hearst Newspaper Trend that May Not Change for the Foreseeable Future: By Marc Chamot One of my most despised newspaper publishers around is the Randolph Hearst family clan, owners of various newspapers chains around the country. They are mainly known for their ownerships of the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle. They are also known as incompetent newspaper and magazine owners, and they don’t know much in... Read Full Story
Not every piece of news piping through our television sets, is of any full interest to most viewers or listeners all of the time. People can easily become desensitized by what they see, hear, and wispily acknowledge of events which happen around the world. Media agencies, irrespective of the quality of their output, have the tenancy of being too repetitious and anecdotal, with agencies like the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation - which is a mainstream channel which utilised... Read Full Story
Reinventing Journalism, traditional media in peril, can anyone revive the watchdog press & can they catch-up with the Internet Big Boys? By Marc Chamot Re-edited January 3, 2009 Is traditional media journalism dying? Traditional big newspaper organizations, the funding of reporters and editors that choose and produce what the public reads or views are crumbling. Declining readership, the Internet , demographic shifts, the economy, and by other self inflicted wounds. It’s really bad times for... Read Full Story
