Jackson Jambalaya

Even though I might not have always agreed with Sam, this is not something to be celebrated. Things will get much worse for the paper I'm afraid.

Bye Felicia!

Best news I've had all day. That newspaper is gone no matter who comes or goes. The only decent newspaper I am aware of in this state is the Sun Herald on the coast. I get as much information from them as I do from the Clarion-Ledger and I live in Ridgeland.

Grew up in Jackson with the Clarion ledger\Jackson Daily News. We got the afternoon paper because both parents worked. Looked forward to it everyday. Gannett destroyed it by making it left-wing and reducing it to a nothing paper.

I am 100% sure things will get worse AT CL. It is so sad seems like every move the CL makes just digs the hole deeper.

If they changed from a liberal voice to a conservative voice, they would grow their readership. Also, cover relevant news rather than just racebaiting stories.

Sounds like a business opportunity. Why don't you genius conservatives start your own paper? Fill the pages with your honesty, wit, and creativity! C'mon let's see you put your money where your mouth is!

The hedge fund that bought Gannett will make sweeping changes at all the papers. They are only interested in MONEY. Sam saw the handwriting on the wall and took a power. Both of the journalists left at the CL better be reading their want-ads. To quote Dany Don Meredith...........Turn out the lights....the party's over.

Dang. I was hoping he would stay long enough to learn the difference between Mississippi State and Ole Miss. I guess not.

Seriously, why wouldn't we all be cheering this? Any time that incompetent employees leave a company, there is hope that the company improves. The Clarion Ledger is full of entitled, government type employees who are in no way ever held accountable. That is why they are losing subscribers.

Probably going to the Daily Worker.

Dance on his grave, low lifes

The bullshit story of finding Hall after a nationwide search was just that, a bullshit story. No one ever read the C-L during his leadership and saw a glimmer of hope. Not influential beyond the role itself, nothing but a caretaker. He managed the demise of a sinking ship. That is all he did.

Are we sure Nashville got this right?

Good riddance. His liberal bias was sickening in a profession that preaches objectivity yet largely pushes a party agenda. If the First Amendment is so sacrosanct then try going back to reporting the facts without editorializing. One look at his twitter feed tells anyone all they need to know about the Clarion Ledger’s ‘objectivity’ under his watch.

Moved here two years ago and the clarion ledger is a complete joke by trying to charge people to read day old news online. I get more news here than I’ve ever gotten on the clarion ledger and that’s because every time I go to their site it blocks you from reading.

A HARD CORE DEMOCRAT-

Is Sam going to Mississippi Today or Jackson Free Press. Both are Non Partisan as is the Clarion Ledger. Hehehe

Gannett eliminated the exec. editor position.

For those with home delivery, future newspapers will be delivered on a postcard.

Wouldn't it be lovely to have a non-partisan news source that gave facts, not opinions? Why is that so impossible?

Riffed.

I just hope Kingfish never leaves Jackson Jambalaya.

Gannett and GateHouse, two major newspaper chains, finished their planned merger, and the combined company intends to cut the combined budget by at least $300 million. That will come on top of unending job losses over the past decade in the affected newsrooms of more than 500 papers.
__The Washington Post

Twice I suffered the wrath of Hall's liberal bully-pulpit and was not allowed (by him) to respond to his printed lies and false assumptions. But, that's part of the territory for an unscrupulous publisher or editor or correspondent, for that matter. And, we all do run that risk when we tolerate their existence and encourage their behavior.

And when we pay to consume their daily dribble, we encourage them. But, as is the case here, Karma will eventually bite each of them in the ass, tho it make take a while. Just be patient.

One of my biggest issues with living in Jackson has always been the Clarion-Ledger. The difference between an independent paper that truly represents it’s community (Baton Rouge and Mobile still have them) and a corporate paper that pushes an outside agenda is huge, even as the role of newspapers has diminished. The sale of the C-L to Gannett surely enriched the Hederman family but it has contributed to the impoverishment of Jackson. Does anyone here remember the quote from one of the Hedermans at the time in a national magazine (Time or Newsweek?). In response to being labeled a slur (whore?) for selling out, he said something like “If I’m a whore, I’m the highest-priced gigolo in America!”
Anyway, as far as the present-day paper goes, “Get Woke, Go Broke!”

Dang 7;00 AM—I had to read your post twice to make sure I hadn’t written it. Same thing happened to me as in your first sentence, I wrote a fiery but accurate response to the CL lies and half truths and he wouldn’t print my defense , even after my lawyer threatened to sue him. Because I was an elected official I was reminded that I had a slim to nothing chance of winning a slander suit. Yep—I’m a Republican. Maybe he can go hang out with that sorry excuse of a reporter Katie Royals.

The CL is a shell of its former self. It’s nothing more than a USA Today

What’s a “newspaper”?

Only reason I have this excuse for a paper is when they were going up to $56 a week, I called and cancelled.

Next day someone called and told me if I remained a subscriber, they'd drop my fee to $22 a week. Told them no and they said how about if they let me have the e-version for $6 a week.

Soon as they try to increase that, its bye!

I quit paying for this leftist POS several years ago.

You can read 10 articles for free before it tells you that you need to subscribe to continue reading. As sorry as the articles about another race baiting story it can take a week or two for you to reach 10.

Then I just change my IP address and to magic 10 number starts again. This week my IP address comes out of Europe.

@9:30AM - that's the old school term for "bird cage liner."

He can always learn to code. Lol 😂

Gannett is the originator of the 4am memo that coordinates all the day's media talking points. It's why they're based in McClean, VA. Also why they built the Newseum in DC. A monument to themselves. What their local markets want is immaterial to them.

You won't know it when he is gone because nobody can point to anything he actually accomplished.

The Clarion Ledger makes good packing paper.

"Hall, who has spent nearly 20 years in journalism,"

Pretty sure that isn't what it's called.

I see what you did there...using journalism and Clarion Ledger together, right there in the same sentence, as if one described the other.

If you're the guy I'm thinking of, you got screwed. An editorial was written about you but then when our illustrious DA in Hinds County used truly racist language, nary a word about it on the editorial page.

Thank goodness for Wyatt Emmerich and all of his local newspapers!

When the CL ceases to produce a print edition, as they inevitably will; there will be an entire city block of vacant real estate downtown. Over half the square footage of that building is printing related. There are 2 cold offset presses inside. Both span 3 floors, as well as a sub basement and the paper warehouse across Pascagoula Street. I can't imagine anyone buying either press, as they're both over 30 years old. Nor would anyone likely want to print there because of the logistical problems associated with downtown. Not to mention the current death spiral Jackson is in. An off site printing location outside of Jackson with newer equipment would be more practical. I.E., Hederman Brothers, Gluckstadt. The two stories of office space (advertising & newsroom) could be commercially viable, but the taxes on a half block of useless space probably wouldn't justify the overall costs. Plus whatever environmental cleanup would be. There are 6 ink tanks in the sub basement, as well as various industrial solvents used in printing to deal with.

tl;dr Get ready for another empty block of RE in downtown Jackson.

"The only decent newspaper I am aware of in this state is the Sun Herald on the coast."

Oh, without a doubt. It is so decent, it will be publishing the winning lottery numbers at least two days in advance. Well, it will be until its parent company is bankrupt - Google it.

Does this mean there will be more accurate reporting of MSU and less pimping Ole Miss? I doubt it...

Since 2004, more than 2000 newspapers in the U.S. have gone under.

There remain only four 7-day a week papers in Mississippi with a population of 3,000,000.

Has anyone else read today’s (Sunday’s) paper? Nearly every one of the non-sport’s stories have run before - I don’t mean digitally, I mean in print in prior editions. It’s like Groundhog Day. Clearly when they let Sam Hall go, they didn’t have anyone ready to step in seamlessly.

Yes, 5:04, how could we survive without thirty monthly pages of photos of the elite and entitled swilling wine while dancing The Light Fantastic?

I sent a letter to the editor about the use of the word "could" in headlines.
Asking was this a NEWSpaper or a COULDpaper? Unicorns COULD land on CAPITOL st I commented.....

Instead of the letter being published, i got an email from Sam, explaining it. So he didn't want my letter publicly stating my thoughts, so he sends me a bullshit explanation of it's explaining to the public what COULD happen....obviously he didn't want my thoughts in the paper, as some COULD agree with me!

But wait Gate-House said no news room layoffs!

That is however how they operate after buyouts and mergers. Just ask all the other newspapers they have bought over the years.

I have said it before the leadership of Gannett, and other large newspaper groups somehow missed their down fall. Missed the coming social media blitz. These high paid geniuses completely failed as a group. Totally unprepared and had only one answer "layoffs" to cut cost.

8:27 is right, along with the rail siding used to bring in the rolls by train and the underground trolley system to bring rolls from said warehouse to the basement and then the presses.

Once you get beyond the newsroom and part of the first floor that is one nasty building.

10:06 - Point is, you can't 'get past the newsroom' and ain't nobody up there. And the 5000 square foot lobby is an echo chamber with one person behind a large reception center. The building will be for sale in a year and the ACLU can purchase it.

Paper no longer comes via rail. The track on Commerce St has been removed. CL now uses it as a staging area, I think. They get paper by truck at the Pascagoula St warehouse. But you're correct, all of that is useless if there's no longer a print edition.

Scum Herald is pretty much the same, and I read their owner McClatchy is nearing bankruptcy.

I've read every post and not a damned one supports the paper or this Hall character. What's up with that - as I don't know. Just giving Sam a chance to post anonymously.