{"id":3217,"date":"2009-01-09T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2009-01-09T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T21:23:00","slug":"newspaper-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cahighways.org\/lj-images\/delurk5.jpg\" width=175 height=119 title=\"\"  align=\"Right\" hspace=5 vspace=5>One of the reasons I like LA Observed (<a href=\"http:\/\/la_observed.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">la_observed<\/a>) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/cat_newspapers.php\" target=\"_blank\">their coverage of the newspaper industry<\/a>, depressing though it may be. So, I just sent their editor a little piece I noticed that doesn&#8217;t portend well for Seattle, nay other cities: The <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle P-I<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008609712_webpitimeline09.html\" target=\"_blank\">oldest newspaper in Seattle<\/a>) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/395463_newspapersale10.html\" target=\"_blank\">put up for sale<\/a>. What&#8217;s more, if Hearst doesn&#8217;t sell it in the next 60 days, it is either closing shop or going web-only. What&#8217;s scary is that, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/more_cuts_across_singleto.php\" target=\"_blank\">Singleton&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/daily_news_layoffs_oconno.php\" target=\"_blank\">cuts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/first_costcutting_of_new.php\" target=\"_blank\">down<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2008\/12\/new_layoffs_at_daily_news.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2008\/11\/content_squeeze_at_daily_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">in LA<\/a>, I could see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a>, and the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medianewsgroup.com\/properties\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medianews<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la.com\/portlet\/layout\/html\/sitemap\/mng_sitemap.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">SoCal papers<\/a>, going the same way. For those in the Bay Area, remember that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury News<\/a> is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la.com\/portlet\/layout\/html\/sitemap\/mng_sitemap.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Singleton property<\/a>. At least we have the safety and security of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Time<\/a>&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/2008_signs_of_our_la_time_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">oh, never mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Grant_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Lou Grant<\/a> and that great paper, the LA Tribune.  Oh, that&#8217;s right. Its fictional. Perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_Herald_Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Herald-Examiner<\/a>? After all, <a href=\"http:\/\/college.usc.edu\/geography\/la_walking_tour\/south_park\/los_angeles_heraldexaminer_building.html\" target=\"_blank\">the building is still there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I like LA Observed (la_observed) is their coverage of the newspaper industry, depressing though it may be. So, I just sent their editor a little piece I noticed that doesn&#8217;t portend well for Seattle, nay other cities: The Seattle P-I (the oldest newspaper in Seattle) has been put up for sale. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3217\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}