Today's edition of the Daily News will be its last.
I have been reading the Daily News for many years, and receive the weekend issues. Or, rather, received.
Sorry to see it go. But I have to state that I hate it when a media organization, which prides itself and takes its journalistic integrity so seriously, backs away and retreats and turns chickenshit when confonted by its own foibles.
A case in point: Staff at the Daily News were informed of the paper's cancelation as of 10 this morning. Today's paper would be it.
Why not let their staff know up front there might be a problem? Why not give readers a heads up to try to build up readership? Why trot their editor-of-the-week and have him or her announce that the paper was taking another run at the Halifax Herald? After a while, we knew that these announcements were full of hot air.
The paper has not been a good one for quite some time, in my opinion. The first few pages would contain stories written by local reporters (the only few reporters they'd have). Then, they'd cede control to wire service stuff and, of course, the columnists. Page after page after page of people expressing opinions about things when they didn't know whereof they wrote. It was so easy to ignore 98% of those people's columns. And sports coverage, too. Don't care about sports much. And that didn't leave much left to read and enjoy and learn from.
Goodbye, Daily News!
More later.
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