Shot in the Dark

Downmarket

I don’t wish anyone trouble with their jobs.  

And that includes the poor saps who work at the Strib’s printing plant. 

Well, worked.  Or will have worked…:

I mean, the schnooks in the plant don’t set the editorial policy.  They’re not the ones painting Ilhan Omar’s toenails in the boardroom, or telling Rochelle Olson what hit pieces to write.  

So I’m sorry about the jobs, guys ‘n gals. 

But if it’s another step on the Strib’s road to extinction?  That’s a silver lining.  

The paper will be printed in Iowa – presumably the day before it reaches the newsstands (or wherever you get paper papers these days – I dunno).  

Next stop Mississippi.  

Anyway – turns out the late Nick Coleman may have been right about something.  I wasn’t rooting for the demise of the Strib back when he was accusing us bloggers of doing that. 

But I sure am now.  

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5 responses to “Downmarket”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    From what I have heard from some former colleagues in the digital media sector, that their online subscriptions are way below expectations.

  2. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Good move. Moving printing to Des Moines only adds a couple of hours to delivery–less if they had union problems here in MN. And you can thank the likes of Coleman for that part.

  3. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    Key point from the linked post: “. . . will negotiate with impacted employees’ unions . . . .” Bet you a brand-new nickel the main reason to close this plant is labor cost.

    I remember when the unions drove up the cost of iron ore, coal, steel and cars so high that it was cheaper to mine the ore in Hibbing, send it by rail to Duluth to go out the Great Lakes, around the Panama Canal, across the Pacific Ocean to Japan to be made into steel for cars, then shipped back across the Pacific Ocean to Seattle as Toyotas, to be brought by rail back to Hibbing…than it was to make cars in America. And they were better cars besides.

    Unions ruin everything.

  4. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    I cancelled my subscription 35+ years ago because rag was/is a propaganda arm of he DemonRats. I not shedding any tears watching the demise of the dead tree media. There are many of places to get the news and for me the Strib isn’t one of them.

  5. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    In this day and age, there’s basically no reason for me to read a big city newspaper.

    As a lad, I delivered newspapers door-to-door after school. The daily newspaper was intended for after-dinner reading, for those who didn’t have television. Television evening news killed the afternoon edition.

    As an adult, I subscribed to the local small-town newspaper to read news about my neighbors and to learn how our football and basketball teams played this week I got my national and international news from the three big networks on television, all we received from the rooftop antenna.

    Now, I receive the Senior Citizens Park Community Newsletter monthly, to read news about my neighbors and learn how the shuffleboard and bocce ball teams played this week. I get my national and international news from conservative aggregator websites like Instapundit or Gateway Pundit.

    The things I miss from the Star Tribune are Lileks’ column and the funny pages. The funny pages aren’t funny anymore and Lileks alone isn’t enough to counterbalance the liberal bullshit. I don’t care where they print the paper. Wouldn’t bother me if they stopped printing it entirely.

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