Jackson Jambalaya

The Clarion Ledger only exists to run legal ads required by statute. If that ever dries up, its over. Some people still subscribe due to sentimentality, but even those people are being priced out for a shrinking paper.

Was in several stores on Friday and saw lots of Thanksgiving clarion ledger newspapers which have the black Friday circulars and is usually all bought up. Unusual year but nobody is buying that garbage. How much longer can they survive.

Oh my what will they do now. Giocomo Balogna was the head of their social justice team. Who will replace him. Can we get some nominations.

I'm 70 years old and grew up during a time of two daily papers (except Sunday). For years I just had to have that paper in hand to start the day. No more. I stopped subscribing to the CL about 3 months ago. It was just not worth what I was having to pay for it.

Has the new sports editor written anything yet?

Since they are equally ineffective maybe the C-L can merge with Mississippi Today since Democrats in Mississippi desperately need to be convinced that they have a one-in-a-million hope of winning some office of real substance and power.

Speaking of sports editor, I wish someone could explain why these young sports writers have started using titles for their articles such as: Five things to know..., Three takeaways from..., Four things we learned from... Someone, please explain.

When they were the only source of news, people bought the paper. When better, more accurate, and harder working sources of information came along, the Clarion Ledger was forced to either improve or get left behind. They chose to be left behind. They simply don't want to do the work required to bring accurate and pertinent news to their readers. So readers simply quit reading. Newspapers don't know how to exist when they don't have a monopoly. They don't know how to outwork the competition, or be better than the competition. They are all too lazy.

I could tell you a Rick Cleveland story that sums up the attitude perfectly. Rick is a talented writer and a good guy. But the attitude of "I don't have to serve the customer" caught up with newspapers many years ago.

Good riddance on that rag.

I cancelled over a year ago when my $10 a month special subscription ran out. The day I called into to cancel turned into a 30 minute of no, I don't want it, no I don't want it for $7.95 a month, no I don't want it because it is a piece of badly written leftist garbage......finally the cleaning lady who was sub'n for a customer service rep gave up and cancelled my account.

About 3 months ago, I got a call from somewhere out of state wanting to reestablish my account at a special rate of $3.95 a month. I told her if it was free I wouldn't take the Clarion Ledger again. She laughed and said she gets that a lot and would remove my name from all their list to insure no one bothered me again. Haven't had another call since.

11:19 What is there to write about in the sports section? They only write about one school and all they have accomplished is beating a team with all freshman and sophomores and a qb in his second start by a touchdown. But hey, they run this ship.

Back in August when the executive editor wrote a front page article stating their focus going forward was going to be social justice and racial inequality I decided to drop my subscription. They continued to send it for 45 days, after repeated requests by me that they stop. Finally they got the message. I haven’t gotten the CL in two months and haven’t missed a thing. My morning read of the Wall Street Journal and some internet news surfing gives me all I need to know.

The world will be a better place without the CL.

Their liberal trash has polluted this state long enough.

Please don't stop the home delivery. What would I use for a bird-cage liner? My canaries would be very upset. One negative is that the canaries have become very liberal and voted for biden.

There's a glut of propaganda organs trumpeting the virtues of liberalism and the evil of anything to the right of Bernie Sanders. Any news of a reduction of this propaganda is a glorious thing.

@11:19 -- The great decision to stop covering local high school sports while replacing content with coverage of North MS teams shows you how in tune that place is with what's going on. Oh, and the sports is covered by interns...glad they're not even hiding the fact that the CL has regressed from a stepping stone to a paper literally run by college students getting college credit.

Old fashioned journalism is dead! Nowadays anyone with a phone or internet connection is a private journalist.

I would subscribe to a print or digital newspaper that was truly unbiased and had great investigative journalists that kept both the Republican and Democrat party honest. Sadly, such a thing does not exist.

The main value to my print subscription is that the local animal shelter gladly accepts newspapers to line its pens & cages. At least animals up for adoption get something useful from the CL.

2:41 I am a conservative who thinks the nuts at Mississippi Today are clueless to think people will leave one liberal rag to support another liberal rag. Yet I share 2:14's sentiments. I'd like to see a paper that would keep the Dems and Repubs honest.

Camille Paglia of the NY Times, and no conservative, said it well: "Journalism is dead."

Evolution/progression

During our lifetimes we have seen a phenomenon of information dissemination change.
Began with newspapers; progressed to VHF TV, then some radio. Objective truth became a less and less important part; witness the noo yawk times articles on how fabulous communism was in Russia in the 1930s.
The main stream media entrenched more and ore in changing opinions rather than providing actual news; followed by a slight return of diverse opinion when cable arose. Now fox news has rather stupidly stabbed its former audience in the back and One America News, and NewsMax, on the internet seem to have a greater voice.

Most are so gullible as to swallow the slimy brown liquid coming fromm a bovine exit or from cris wallace and friends, but fewer every day.
Disney purchased fox a few years ago and the writing was on the wall.

Pretty soon the malignant billionaires like soros and gates and bezos will control much more than they should and quality of life for most of us will quietly evaporate.

Thanks for allowing me to rant; sorry no solution except to remain rebellious.

Since the C-L won't let me read their flimsy little online paper for free (since that's all its worth) I long ago stopped reading or caring about their operation. The hardcopies aren't even worth buying for bird cage liner.

Just a suggestion to my fellow posters.....try the TUPELO DAILY JOURNAL. I believe it to be the best paper in MS and it has great sports coverage of OM and MSU.

the Carrion Ledger has been dead for a long time.

1:33 PM 😄

11:36 AM
Monkey see, monkey do. Imitation of clickbait.

"I remember when you used to be able to get a Hershey for a nickel."

Good! I hope the whole paper goes bankrupt and closes its biased doors forever!!

To 11:36 AM: They write stories now in the form of "listicles" or buzzfeed type formatting because it's what they themselves consume. It's a subtly condescending way of talking down to their audience. Journalim's problem is their belief they occupy the moral high ground. In all ways; at all times. They have zero capacity for introspection. They see themselves as virtuous crusaders against all things "bad". Unfortunately, for all of us unwashed masses, they get to define what is good AND what is bad.

tl;dr. Journalists require validation from their readers. Stop giving it to them.

" I'm 70 years old and grew up during a time of two daily papers.No more. I stopped subscribing to the CL about 3 months ago."

Good for you !

I'm ten years younger and remember that era fondly.
The Clarion Ledger was first thing in the morning, and the Jackson Daily News during the afternoon.
And within each Sunday edition, the Clarion Ledger had two sections of full color "funny papers".
(Color Comics for those that have never heard of "Funny Papers").

Que Mary Hopkin's classic tune: " Those were the days, my friend".

I would still subscribe but there is nothing left but AP wire stories and a few local ones. Mississippi Today, Mississippi Free Press, Jackson Free Press,and Northside Sun all have good Jackson coverage.

" Good! I hope the whole paper goes bankrupt and closes its biased doors forever!! "

Not to worry. It will. Give it a bit more time.

Gosh, they didn't even attempt to start a $1.25 per year VIP program.

All this frothing at the mouth about journalism. The Clarion Ledger, and publications around the country, are crumbling because of the Internet. Our accepted reality is being refracted through less responsible online sources and social media. Just look at the comments above me that allude to a cabal. Just look at our President’s Twitter posts. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that a large segment of the population never read very much, doesn’t particularly like to read, and now feels liberated to express their outright hostility to literacy, education, and science. Or they somehow morphed their own weaknesses (lack of curiosity, patience, creativity) into strengths. Why would you celebrate on the grave of our only real metro paper? Why wouldn’t you want truth to be sought, printed, and read?

The reason that a newspaper sells subscriptions for very little money is to justify their ad rates. Giveaway and newsstand sales don't count(at least, they didn't used to count).

I remember when I had a Jackson Daily New paper route that the newspapers were much thicker than the current CL.

I am 80 and still working full time. I dropped my subscription about 20 years ago. Nothing but liberal blather. I look at their online page to check the obits to be sure that neither I nor anyone I know has died.

Two newspapers in one day. Seems like a lifetime ago doesn’t it?!

7:16 "The only explanation that makes sense to me is that a large segment of the population never read very much, doesn’t particularly like to read, and now feels liberated to express their outright hostility to literacy, education, and science"

Most of what made America great throughout its first 250 years was not a snobbery to 'intellectual eliteness/pretense" that you seem to exhibit, but rather a common sense position and logical response to events and things that occurred throughout that time.

You seem to be one of those who went to school waaaaayyy beyond the necessary to contribute.

Liberal rag in Mississippi. I give it a few more years. You can get the news online without the CL pushing their left agenda down the throats of us God fearing conservatives.

And yet this is the outcome of another Democratic owned business in Jackson. As if readership is still enough to print papers, it has to be extremely dismal.

Remember when they doubled the size of the building around the turn of the century. Things were looking up. High school and college sports, and legislative sessions were being covered in depth. Epicurious gave food reviews all over the state. Columnists provided local interest stories. Now the only thing left is the puzzles.

Today's edition is a prime example of what the Clarion Ledger is all about. In the entire newspaper-24 pages-there are three news stories about events in Mississippi. Two are on the front page. The headline is about the new pandemic stats in Mississippi. There is also a story about a jury verdict in a Rankin County medical malpractice case. A few page over the C-L reports that a former high school teacher has been sentenced to prison for fondling a student.

We live in the capital city surrounded by 576,382 people in the metro area, and there are only three news stories in today's local newspaper. Heck, I can assure you that I could find more than three newsworthy events in Wiggins, Mississippi, for today's local newspaper.

There is absolutely no other non-sports story about any event that occurred in Mississippi. In the sports section there is yet another 3/4th page story about Coach Deion Sanders. That subject has significant local interest, but how many people will actually see and read the article?

As a side bar, there is a banner at the top of the front page with an ad for Fresh Market. I wonder, but will never know, how many people will actually shop at Fresh Market because of that ad. How many people will read it? Seems like wasted marketing money by Fresh Market.

The Clarion Ledger is no longer a "news", for sure.

I agree that investigative journalism is on its last leg especially print media.One of the greatest tools for investigating corruption use to be a savvy reporter that took the time to try and separate the goats from the sheep. Many federal, state, and local officials went to jail in the past.The last thing a crooked official wanted to see was a reporter with pad and pencil or a TV van pull up with dearly departed Burt Caseee.At one time the CL had real editors and real letters to the editor. An honest official could always talk to them and help expose the truth. In recent years the CL hired inexperienced so called reporters (definitely not journalist and editors) that took the low hanging fruit and ran. In almost every case it has all been about sensationalism without ground checking and really correcting later a bad accusation.ex.Mayor, sheriff, supervisor,congressman is accused of “horrible thing”. After a full investigation of all the facts it turned out to be a total lie and correction appears in print requiring a microscope to read in an obscure part of the paper. Yea I’ve been there.At the graveside service for the CL there will be plenty of present and future crooks with a smile on their faces.
I will give credit to JJ for exposing some important news while allowing a lot of BS comments. But hey thats part of the game.

The left destroys everything they touch. That is their intent. Just ask them.

@7:16 I will address your complaint:

"The only explanation that makes sense to me is that a large segment of the population never read very much, doesn’t particularly like to read, and now feels liberated to express their outright hostility to literacy, education, and science."

I read a lot. I work a 55 hour per week job, yet still read about 30 books annually. And I also read magazines. I started a subscription to Sports Illustrated in 1986. I have read every issue, every article, and every word of that magazine for over 34 years. I read it cover-to-cover. I recently cancelled it because they quit writing about sports, and have started writing about woke politics. Their liberal bias is in every article. So I quit a 34 year subscription.

The Clarion Ledger is the same way. They don't report the news anymore. Instead they hire liberal journalists who always want to force their liberal version of the news down your throat. So I look elsewhere. I don't want a liberal spin, nor do I want a conservative spin. I simply want the facts and the truth.

It’s not the internet’s fault, it’s the lack of real honest local journalism.

What’s funny is that Mississippi Today launched as some sort of better alternative to the CL. It likes to tout itself as “non-partisan”. I’ve attempted to read it and it comes across as the most partisan paper in Mississippi. It is full of old, worn out writers that just want to grind personal axes with people. It’s really quite aggressive towards any conservatives. The “non-partisan” label should be removed. What a joke.

MT dropped their self-appellation as "non-partisan" some time ago. They may not have completely scrubbed the term from their online presence but they have moved on from the pretense.

3:22
I believe what Disney bought was 20th Century Fox Television(movies-TV shows-production facilities etc)not Fox News, they are/were separate companies.

The MT "non partisanship" thing is just a ruse for billionaires to get tax deductions on money they'd spend bashing conservatives anyway.

The real question here is why would anyone hire anyone coming from the CL?

Mississippi Today lists their benefactors on their website. It's a whose who of the left. Among others.
Dick Molpus
Ford Foundation.As left as you get.
Walton Family Foundation. Walmart heirs.
Creekmmore Foundation. Cspire Founders
Fred Carl Jr. Ran Viking Range into the ground.
Jim Barksdale. Enough said about this creep.
Jack Reed. Liberal Republican.
Archie Manning and Wife. Didn't know Arch was a leftist. Plenty more who prop up this liberal rag.

November 30, 2020 at 7:16 PM
Ask me how I know you're a registered Democrat.

To 7:16pm. You sound like a reporter. In which case, 5:23pm was correct. Zero introspection.

I apologize for being redundant, but liberalism really is a mental disorder.

Holy Shat! I thought when you posted 'Mr. Sam Is Back', you meant Sam Hall. I was already looking for poster board and a magic marker.