Comments on: La Socialista’s Restructuring

By: Anderson having more problems than usual | The Palmetto Scoop

Anderson having more problems than usual | The Palmetto Scoop — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:47:50 +0000

[...] told that the Independent Mail is downsizing to a tabloid newspaper, has “restructured” similar to The State newspaper, and could be closing for good very [...]

By: Setting the Record Straight

Setting the Record Straight — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:19:23 +0000

[...] appropriate to note that fewer and fewer apparently read The State. With declining readership, layoffs (sorry, early retirements), and the need to compete with a new form of media (i.e. blogs), does it really matter that The [...]

By: InDefenseOfRon

InDefenseOfRon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:02:21 +0000

Ron agrees to participate in my R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N.

By: baked

baked — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:09:58 +0000

They’re all laying off people left and right all over the country. They’re dinosaurs and will be drowing in the tar pits soon.

Vive’ Fits News

By: Not Only That

Not Only That — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:57:54 +0000

And if you can’t get Mike Smith — you should truly hang it up.

By: Sleeping Volcano of Violence

Sleeping Volcano of Violence — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:25:48 +0000

Seriously man,

Your favorite hated rag takes a hit and you complain? Bob Barr could take over the govt tomorrow, and your bald ass could get laid and it would still be a conspiracy against your values.

You are the libertarian hugh
leatherman. You suck.

Remember that time in high school in the locker room with all those middle school boys that you….hung out with all the time because people your own age thought you were sketchy? I sure do.

By: Regulus @ Binary Moon

Regulus @ Binary Moon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:38:06 +0000

The last time I looked, offering consumers less product for the same price generally wasn’t a very successful business model.

By: baker

baker — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:26:39 +0000

Will — Please do be serious. You know layoffs have been going on industry-wide in the media, and it isn’t just at so-called liberal, pro-big government papers. For example, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, certainly not a liberal paper — indeed, a news outlet that has been VERY friendly to you and your dudes (though even Mike Smith has stopped short of endorsing the SCRG agenda…) — has had major staffing cuts in recent years.

I’d say this is about corporate, big business bean-counting. Profits. The “free market” system at work.

There’s an interesting discussion to be had about changes in the media and what’s really going on. I think the analysis you offered here is the off the mark. Your blog often has interesting content and intriguing commentary (whether or not I agree with it all)….but I think this is a case of your trying to score points rather than get at the truth of the matter.

By: StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM)

StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:46:53 +0000

The State hasn’t been anything more that bird-cage lining material since the end of The Columbia Record. Yes, I just said that it’s basically been 22 years since anything newsworthy has come from Shop Road . . . what a shame.

Knight-Ridder - You KILLED my local paper.

- SSHM

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:08:37 +0000

For a paper that allowed you, a convicted beater of women, to defend your guilty plea on its pages, you’re pretty tough on The State.