My wife and I baled on the Courant about six months ago, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for the nation’s oldest newspaper. It’s unfortunate, but that title will probably soon be passed on to some other paper. Today, the Courant announced another 150 layoffs, including 30 in the newsroom.
It’s hard not to see this as part of the death spiral.
Had the Courant stayed locally owned, might things have been different? Had the LA Times Company not been acquired by Sam Zell, might things have been different. I have little good to say about Rupert Murdoch, but at least he’s a newspaperman, who cares about his newspapers. It’s not at all clear what Zell was looking to do, but besides himself he’s managed to destroy a fair number of newspapers.
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