Thursday, February 17, 2022

The Death Spiral Continues

The incredibly shrinking Clarion-Ledger is going to shrink some more as reporters desert, well, we were going to use "in droves" but there are not enough reporters at the "state newspaper" to use "droves."  

Lee Sanderlin left.  His last day was Tuesday. 

Keisha Rowe is leaving.  Her tenure ends this week. 

Senior Content Coach (yes, that is a title and name for what was once called an editor) Karin Meadows was canned. 

Health reporter Sarah Hasalhorst is leaving next week. 

Executive Editor Marlon Walker is moved on to the Marshall Project after destroying what little morale and competence remained at the newspaper.  

Who is left? A couple of reporters in Hattiesburg.  Mina Corpuz covers the Jackson scene but lives and works in Hattiesburg. 

Communities Editor Scott Hawkins remains.  

There is no one with institutional knowledge or an understanding of the community. No reporters with a black book of sources.  Pitiful. 


Congrats, Barksdale Today.  You won and it wasn't even close.  


44 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm very curious to know what their revenue is.

Anonymous said...

I fondly remember back in the day my dog running to fetch the afternoon paper. Time for a cup of coffee and time to read the afternoon news. Of course that was before the internet.

Anonymous said...

What will it take for you people to finally stop subscribing to that POS?

Anonymous said...

Well the Sri’s sword puzzles and other games are still there. are the reasons I still take it.

Anonymous said...

“I’d rather read Jackson Jambalaya any day than the Clarion Ledger.”

—said no Jackson resident, ever

Anonymous said...

Good. When the CL made it clear when placing their newest “editors” that social justice and race relations were going to be their focus and obsession, instead of reporting news, I was done.

Good riddance.

Anonymous said...

Sad situation for a once fine publication. Of course that's what happens when you put Democrats in charge of anything.

Anonymous said...

It is too bad that Ms Today is The Clarion Ledger 2.0.

Anonymous said...

@6:39 “this FORMER Jackson resident would rather read JJ than the Clerical Liar any day of the week and twice on weekends.”

Anonymous said...

This is Gannett's legacy, and is happening all over the U.S., with their mandatory progressive/left-wing reporting.

Anonymous said...

The Northside Sun is OK but the Madison County Journal is actually the best.

Anonymous said...

When does the CL go to a 3-day per week publication? They have already done that to the Hattiesburg American.

Most of the CL articles are just "cut and paste" from the USA Today. I grew reading the CL and Jackson Daily News, but since Gannett took over, it has been in decline.

Anonymous said...

Destroyed by people who use racism as an excuse for their incompetence. Pretty accurate microcosm of Jackson as a whole.

Anonymous said...

@6:39 AM
Whatever has social justice and race relations done to you?
Your issue isn’t with CL. Your issues are with blacks.
See how easy it is to tell the truth?

Anonymous said...

What about that Sarah woman? I forget her last name as she was quite forgettable. A died in the wool liberal who followed the illicit journalistic practices of the Chief Clown who is now at the Tupelo Daily Junkyard.

They can't blame this decline on the price of gas as nobody working there has ever left the office in the past five or six years, other than to go home.

Anonymous said...

Front page today about a racist church bombing decades ago. I thought, how many children of color have been killed in the streets of Jackson in the last few years? A stream of stories of past atrocities on the black community and rarely any commentary critical of what goes on in the 'hood....

Anonymous said...

@751 am—“The Madison County Journal is the best”—Is that you Jim Prince or one of your minimum wage reporters. All the news stands are gone, there are free papers in restaurants and then they have to mail free papers to have any circulation. They refuse to have Letters to the Editor to expose the Prince bias and lies. Hope his Daddy’s money doesn’t run out.No one takes that rag seriously.

Anonymous said...

The C-L wasn’t destroyed by social justice or left-wing leanings (though, admittedly, all of that is basically just feel-good corporate BS). The C-L was destroyed by ignoring local issues such as, say, Jackson’s and Hinds County’s inept leadership and failure to really dig into the morass that is the State Legislature and State government.

No one wants to read USA Today as local news, but plenty of us will read actual journalism about things happening in our backyard or state.

After decades of support, stopped subscribing traditionally or online some time ago. Say what you want about KF, but he does provide quality local content (as evidenced by the number of comments and site visits).

Anonymous said...

Oh no, with so many reporters leaving, how can the CL serve all the underserved communities that one editor after another yaps about serving?

Anonymous said...

@8:55 AM
Clearly you haven’t visited a real blog.

Kingfish said...

Gabby, Justin, and Keisha were serious reporters. They got tired of being treated like crap by management, micromanagement from regional, the spiking of stories, and Lee Sanderlin's comp. Wait do I mean by that last comment? Ready for this? Gannett brought in their star investigative reporter fresh out of school at a salary around $14K more than the other reporters. To say they were ticked is an understatement.

Some of y'all griped about Sam Hall but I told you there was much worse than Mr. Hall. You are seeing it now.

Anonymous said...

My parrots love the C-L.

Anonymous said...

7:51- I would have to disagree with you about the Madison County Journal. Madison County is one of the largest, fastest growing counties in the state, and in my estimation the MCJ does a poor job in bringing the news. It is just a few pages, and if you eliminate the legal ads and the national editorials there is very little local news. On several occasions I have encouraged the editor of the Northside Sun to start a Madison County paper. We deserve better than the MCJ.

Anonymous said...

Wrong. There's nothing 'worse' than Sam Hall. He was/is just a slicker huckster than most, just half a notch above the guy in blue-jean overalls. The people in the Tupelo market don't deserve his blather, nor did we.

Anonymous said...

The only things thriving in Jackson are crime, obesity, poverty and victimology.

Anonymous said...

I subscribe simply to read the obituaries of my friends-

Anonymous said...

So looking forward to the day when their doors are closed.


Anonymous said...

Sam Hall is a good man. We don’t share the same politics, and that is okay. He is a decent, God-fearing Christian man and he has reinvigorated the Daily Journal. Maybe some people didn’t like the Clarion Ledger under his direction. That’s fine. I can tell you though that I worked with him and his reporters on a very frequent basis and he ran a much more balanced ship than any other paper in the state at the time.

Anonymous said...

Sam Hall? Really 'Fish? The guy who ran the Democrat party and worked for Billy McCoy and Bloomberg while moving back and forth to journalist status?

Andre 3000 said...

@6:39 AM
Ever, ever.

Anonymous said...

@ February 17, 2022 at 9:33 AM -- You forgot graft.

Anonymous said...

People under 60 don't want to read yesterday's news. but they would read long ongoing investigative articles...and it seems as if those are not valued by the current newspaper owner/editors...

Anonymous said...

Emmerich is a joke. No thanks.

Anonymous said...

Yes, it’s down to the Demos and the black bears to support that rag.

Anonymous said...

Sam Hall ran the Clarion Ledger but didn't know the difference between Ole Miss and MSU. Or he knew the difference but didn't care to get it correct. Then when asked about it he made bullcrap excuses. That's not what leaders do.

Anonymous said...

Sam Hall was and is nothing more than a democrat huckster, trying now in Tupelo to masquerade as a moderate. He never gave one whit about truth or journalistic ethics. He would blaspheme an apparent conservative (or announced republican) just for the sake of his political bent, not caring at all about investigation, research or fairness. It was and is all about democrat politics. Don't come up in here claiming him to be a fine, Christian man. That's as much Bull-Shit as his ethics.

A zebra never changes stripes and a turd, once floated, will always float.

Anonymous said...

Legal advertising is handled by a Gannett office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Payments for same go to a post office box in Dallas, Texas.

Anonymous said...

This all started when the Gannett family sold their business in Augusta, GA to a bunch of progressives.

Anonymous said...

More reason to cancel my subscription: it’s bad and the writing is horrible: they can’t even grammatically use the word “capital/Capitol” in the correct context. Obits are my reason for paying: news is several days old. Sad they could be a light for Ms. couple of weeks ago WSJ wrote an editorial about how they are expanding and see it as an opportunity to get good news and reporting out there. And they are correct. CL could do the same. Ms has good interesting people and places. The Saturday edition has a religious commentary from Illinois, really? We r the Bible belt. …..we could have 1 church a week and prob never run out of material…..instead they’re cancelling Saturday delivery.

I guess they r hoping more will cancel so they can shut it down

Anonymous said...

"What about that Sarah woman? I forget her last name as she was quite forgettable. A died in the wool liberal who followed the illicit journalistic practices of the Chief Clown who is now at the Tupelo Daily Junkyard."

Pretty funny when someone who can't spell a 4-letter word starts complaining about journalists.


And to the C-L: Your readerships is now "woke."

Anonymous said...

C-L's non-stop coverage of 65 year old civil rights cases, social justice, excuses for failure of Marxist policies, blatant Democrat bias, and hating whitey were the primary reasons I stopped subscribing to it. Oh, and just piss poor writing, 4th grade grammar skills , and no effort. Y'all may know of other reasons. I'm ok with reading day old news, as most of it doesn't affect me enough to be that urgent .

Anonymous said...

Yep, i'm totally with 12:48 - after 40+ years, finally cancelled last week.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations 6:19 -- You win the "Reason for Never Change Award -- DING DING DING!! WINNER, WINNER!! When reason and thought no longer back your arguement, turn to name calling. Mississippi is last in most everything -- maybe it was racist people in the past, now it's those who refuse to actually bring about a color-blind society and use racism for an excuse for their laziness. The Clarion-Liar set up it's own demise when the Hedermans took ownership away from Rea Hederman and Mississippi roots and gave away the store to Virginia carpetbaggers who just wanted revenue -- "They'll read anything we put out there..."

Anonymous said...

The accounting is not too good. I was going out of town so I tried to stop my home delivery but could not. So I cancelled it figuring that would stop it.
I got a partial refund check then another 35 checks. Emailed them. One came back saying they were gone. And I guess the editor email is lost also. Guess I can just start cashing checks.


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