Why this matters:
Our democracy is at risk when they censor the news at the source. Outsourcing of editing by American newspapers has included outsourcing to editors in India.
- Our local newspaper, The St. Augustine Record, owned by GateHouse chain, is now subject to editing in Austin, Texas. While Austin's a cool place, the editors are not here. Not attending meetings. (Not unlike generations of local St. Augustine Record editors, who never show up either, sometimes not even bothering to send a reporter, and hardly ever quoting activists at meetings). Sad.
- The St. Augustine Record is now printed in Gainesville (weekdays) and Daytona Beach, Florida (Sundays).
- The Record's "news hole" is now waaay too small.
- Not enough news.
- Earlier deadlines.
- Corporate conformity.
- Reports on our government meetings are sometimes printed days later, in pieces, or not at all.
- Decisions made in Texas. Let that sink in. Texas.
From GateHouse Media website:
,,, Our Center for News & Design, based in Austin, Texas, employs more than 240 individuals and now serves 82 daily and 176 weekly GateHouse newspapers, and 13 newspaper partners. In early 2017, we brought the editing and design work of the Dallas Morning News to the Center....
The Center for News and Design in Austin, Texas, is the hub for centralized page design, copy editing, content development and digital publishing for GateHouse newspapers across the country.
We are a creative services organization fostering innovation, operational excellence and accountability that provides media and marketing companies with best-in-class content, design and marketing solutions.
The center opened in May 2014 and has been growing ever since. It services more than 200 GateHouse newspapers today and also supports a growing number of commercial clients for print and digital services.
"Our democracy is at risk when they censor the news at the source."
ReplyDeleteThey have been doing it for years Ed.
http://saintaugdog.com/sadissues/issue1/1page1sad.html
From a kindred spirit...
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-ghosts-of-1968.html