Jackson Jambalaya

What the hell happened to the Clarion-Ledger? Once upon a time it was the premiere newspaper for all sports in the state of Mississippi. As a kid I used to run and rush to read the paper to see who made the Football, Basketball and Baseball "Dandy Dozen" List before catching the school bus. Also, to see the weekly top 10 ranking list of teams. The great in-depth interviews from Rick Cleveland, Todd Kelly, etc, with players that were bonafide D-1 athletes on their way to college. Damn shame. RIP Clarion-Ledger.

Find a way to sell online sports betting ads, they are all the rage.
Of course the mafia could take you out.
Healthier alternative, become a media relations manager for professional sports.

Sad part is sports is still a moneymaker for the CL. But of course they go screw that up.

Gannett is owned/run by Marxist progressives.

The Gannett woodchipper hungers.

I haven’t read a clarion ledger in YEARS!

Classy statement from a young guy who just lost his job. Best of luck to him. But as far as the CL goes, high school sports was one of the very few things that I could imagine anyone would want to get from them, so at this point what do they have left to offer Mississippi?

The Clarion- Ledger became irrelevant 8-10 years ago. Very little local news, and mostly advertising ads. When the price hit $2.50/day, it was no longer something to pick up on the way home from work. Even the store I picked one up at quit carrying them because they didn’t sell. Sad reality.

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The broader question: What happened to newspapers in general?

The short answer is Craigslist.

That nuked classified advertising, a huge — as high as 40 percent — chunk of newspapers’ revenue.

Drilling down, in the mid/late 2000s, most papers started publishing online, with little thought to ad revenue and subscriptions. Technology got away from them.

It’s sad.

Yes, for example, huge market in college sports. Rivals, Scout, On3, and all the other online publications and newsletters that college sports fans shell out for subscriptions. CL had beat writers who could have cashed in on that. Didn't occur to these numbskulls they could let their sportswriters set up similar sites and let them keep some of the money. Nope. They had their corporate model and they were sticking to it.

Seems like it started going down hill fast back in the early 2000's. Can't recall who was in charge, but obviously they were in over their heads.

Newspapers (ex:wsj & w post) are now just propaganda machines, with no creativity. x.com (twitter) is now where you go to gain an edge and gather information. What is a newspaper? Well it use to be on paper, where you could read, of course, the local news, hear opinions, cartoons, crosswords, see art, read stories, sports. First you get viewership and subscription rates up and then comes the advertisers who will pay big bucks. The owners aren't local so they dont know what mississippians really want. The good news is that someone with a vision could take over mississippi with a creative paper and online presence *cough* kingfish *cough* maybe even emmerich newspapers could help. Rethink what a newspaper is and be a frontiersman for a new media type and start it in mississippi. hell the best writers and story tellers come from this state. maybe include playing cards in between pages for the kids like the old pokemon magazines. There is a bright future ahead for those who take action, people are hungry for real media and not ai generated stories with grammatical mistakes in it

The Clarion Liar is doomed

Who buys newspapers anymore?

They would rather appeal to the non-plural understanding readers who simply can’t afford to buy a daily copy of a newspaper. But, their radical ideas are good.

That’s why I don’t read it