tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post2966768160242689450..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Valley papers axe Austin reporter who broke TYC storiesGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-39085838482498414662007-11-16T09:14:00.000-06:002007-11-16T09:14:00.000-06:00I agree with you, Amerloc, and I probably monitor ...I agree with you, Amerloc, and I probably monitor more papers than that. The Statesman will likely be the next paper to cut capitol staff.<BR/><BR/>Information wants to be free, but information producers need to be paid. It's a serious problem and I don't know the answer.<BR/><BR/>I do know this: If the state capitol has half the number of reporters they did two decades ago, and most of them are part-time, there's no good argument left for not giving media credentials on the House and Senate floor to bloggers. Otherwise there might be no coverage at all. best,Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-57808793219373040212007-11-16T09:00:00.000-06:002007-11-16T09:00:00.000-06:00I won't suggest that eliminating that particular v...I won't suggest that eliminating that particular voice wasn't the frosting on the cake, but the larger picture needs to be considered here as well: newspapers everywhere are eliminating remote staff to cut costs. Part of that comes because profit is more important than service, part of it comes because as more an more of us rely on the internet for news, there's less and less profit to be had in the print media.<BR/><BR/>I just counted: I have eleven newspapers bookmarked, from dailies with national reputations to my home-town weekly. There's no way I could subscribe to that many physical newspapers, but I rely on them all for information, many on a daily basis. And all the sites are free.<BR/><BR/>We get what we pay for, and I sense an obligation to support the services we want. I just have no idea what sort of mechanism would keep my eleven newspaper "subscriptions" close enough to free to not be a burden.Amerlochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17001434250939119091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-83295482917025302502007-11-16T08:18:00.000-06:002007-11-16T08:18:00.000-06:00What a sly way to censor her for writing the "wron...What a sly way to censor her for writing the "wrong" stories: don't fire her, just eliminate the position. Did they learn that from employers with troops on long deployments? Employers never fire the Guard employees; they just eliminate the position carefully skirting the law.JT Barriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571868033521182864noreply@blogger.com