Mississippi is a hotbed of high school football but don't tell that to the Clarion-Ledger. The "state newspaper" threw its last high school sports reporter overboard last week. Yup. You read that correctly. Ex-reporter Michael Chavez tweeted:
Even though he will benefit from such Gannett missteps, Blake Levine decried Chavez's termination on his Facebook page:
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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.
9:24 -
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
The Clarion Ledger is still being published ? Who knew!
The only one even remotely worth reading is Northside Sun. It's free. If you pay a "subscription" it's basically just delivery fee.
No one under the age of 50 buys a newspaper.
NOBODY!
I usually read news online it’s free
Is anyone who is criticizing this (admittedly sad) decision still a paid subscriber? If not, I think you have your answer.
I’m over 50 and I don’t buy news papers! I NEVER pay for news!
Friday afternoon: Get Northside Sun in Mail about 2:00. Read cover to cover. Wonderful couple of hours. I try to trade with its advertisers.
Some great sports journalists got their start at the CL. Ian Rappaport (NFL Network) was the beat reporter in Starkville.
Ross Dellenger (Yahoo by way of Sports Illustrated) covered high school sports and then (I think) Jackson State.
No one’s covered the Protect College Sports Act’s twists & turns better. I don’t miss an episode of the College Football Enquirer podcasts that he co-hosts with Andy Staples and Brandon HS alumnus Steven Godfrey Jr.
Quit the CL over 20 years ago- it was TRASH back then.
The Northside Sun does a good job overall.
Rankin County News will be history in a few years, the new owners are "Gannetting" it -other than legal notices, there is not much Rankin news provided.
I seriously doubt The Clarion Ledger has hit bottom yet.
To answer the question as to what happened to the Clarion-Ledger, the answer is: Internet + Car Dealers = no need for newspaper advertising = huge lost revenue = no revenue to pay investigative reporters - then no reporters, including sports writers
Print media in-large is run by Dumocrats, and they are generally emotional, overly idealistic, simplistic, opinionated people who feel they are morally sound, and like to expound their opinions. What they fail to realize is most people who think like them don't read newspapers. And, the funniest part, they never realized it...because they are morally sound. LOLOLOL
The Clarion Ledger. I forgot it existed. I don’t think it’s local is it?
And few under SEVENTY have ever subscribed to a newspaper. They're ugly. They smell bad. The get black ink on your hands. And there's never, ever, anything in them. Vanity Fair, they ain't. A few times, we'd buy one, to see ads we'd placed. But we learned that trying to sell or rent apartments, in Mississippi, is inviting discrimination suits. So, we stopped.
And that may point to another reason why nobody bothers with newspapers, anymore. The populace has become so problematic, it's dangerous to run ads, nowadays. (now, with Lynn & Cindy working to eliminate online anonymity, online venues will probably die-out too...)
And letters to editors? Once they started requiring all that personal information, I'm sure it eliminated another motivation for subscribing.
The Clarion Ledger at least reports the high school scores from around the State. No Tri-County area TV station does that. Newspapers in general were toast when on-line devices reduced the readers' attention span to shorter than that of a gnat. People wanted "news" they could get without having to actually read anything. I subscribe to the CL on line, and read it every day, in addition to the included USA Today and its World and Nation publication. I understand why local newspapers are failing. Before electronic media, everyone needed the newspaper to see the box scores from PeeWee football, Little League baseball, etc, so they could see their kids' names "in the paper". Reading is a lost art. I subscribe on line to the NYT and the WAPO, because I don't want the TV networks to tell me what the news is.
I remember a newspaper guy who used to post on an MSU message board. He was a cocky and arrogant. A paraphrase of his attitude was, "I'm liberal and smart. You are conservative and dumb. We will print what we want and we are invincible. Screw you."
Welcome to the unemployment line big boy.
@2:04 PM I know who you are because you used the word "Dumocrats". "Dumb" has a B in it. And you criticized "print media in-large". Are you reading "print media in-large" every day or just repeating what Trump tells you to say, like the word "Dumocrats"? I expect that it's people like you who refuse to read (or can't read ) newspapers that's putting theim out of business.
Back in the mid 80's, the CL's local phantom restaurant reviewer "Epicurious" was hilarious. This secret customer would degrade long standing great Jackson area restaurants while at the same time giving a fish shack on Woodrow Wilson or Ellis Avenue a five star Michelin style review.
If you want to read the approved propaganda from the grievance industry, like civil rights cases from 70 years ago and the like, I suppose the CL is your place to go. It was a great paper in the 70s and 80s, but now you have a bunch of low rent socialists writing all the stories.
3:33...at least Trump can spell basic words correctly.
Hilarious: 3:33 criticizes the misspelling of dumb - then in the next sentence spells them 'theim'. What a maroon!
Article could be “Buggy Makers upset people buying new car invention and no longer purchasing buggies.” Tech changed. The world changed. Newspapers stayed the same….
I remember the good ole days in Mississippi during the 50's & 60's when we had 3 choices of newspapers in the Jackson, MS' area...The Jackson-Daily News, The State Times and The Clarion-Ledger. The State Times was the first to go, then The Jackson-Daily News bit the dust and now The Clarion-Ledger can't even find a way to compete with "itself" WHAT?!?!?
I miss the days of "The Baker's Dozen" by Lee Baker and so many other like Carl Walters. Man, those were the days! THAT was real, HONEST news. RIP....
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