{"id":89904,"date":"2025-09-09T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89904"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:20:49","slug":"downmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89904","title":{"rendered":"Downmarket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t wish anyone trouble with their jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that includes the poor saps who work at the Strib&#8217;s printing plant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, worked.&nbsp; Or&nbsp;<em>will have&nbsp;<\/em>worked&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INBOX:  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StarTribune<\/a> is closing its printing plant.  125 jobs cut.  Paper will now be printed in Iowa. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o7R20437Eg\">pic.twitter.com\/o7R20437Eg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Blois Olson (@bloisolson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bloisolson\/status\/1965098726445515089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, the schnooks in the plant don&#8217;t set the editorial policy.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not the ones painting Ilhan Omar&#8217;s toenails in the boardroom, or telling Rochelle Olson what hit pieces to write.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sorry about the jobs, guys &#8216;n gals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0<em>if\u00a0<\/em>it&#8217;s another step on the Strib&#8217;s road to extinction?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a silver lining.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The paper will be printed in Iowa &#8211; presumably the day before it reaches the newsstands (or wherever you get paper papers these days &#8211; I dunno).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next stop Mississippi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; turns out the late Nick Coleman may have been right about\u00a0<em>something<\/em>.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t rooting for the demise of the\u00a0<em>Strib\u00a0<\/em>back when he was accusing us bloggers of doing that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I sure am now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which I admit Nick Coleman may have had a point.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89906,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89904\/revisions\/89906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}