A nice post on Joe Posnanski's blog today about his time at the Cincinnati Post, which is apparently shutting down at the end of the year.

You hear stories about this reasonably frequently. Cities used to have several newspapers, all vying for the attention of the city. These days, most only have 1 or 2, probably owned by some mega media conglomerate, like Scripps or Gannett. A huge city like New York at one time had as many as 12 daily newspapers, papers like the Herald, the old Sun, the World Telegram (this was the last of the papers to fold, leaving New York with its three dailies), the Daily Mirror, the Tribune, etc. It currently has 4 (including the very marginal New York Sun). This doesn't only mean that the local flavor of the newspapers are essentially gone; it also means that what gets printed is controlled somewhat (or a lot) by the corporation that owns the paper, which wants to boost its readership, so it nationalizes its coverage.

I just want the local stuff. That's all.

Labels: my high horse, newspapers