{"id":2213,"date":"2009-02-25T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2009-02-25T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T01:02:25","slug":"very-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Very Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">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&#8217;s oldest newspaper. It&#8217;s unfortunate, but that title will probably soon be passed on to some other paper. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003944795&#038;imw=Y\">Today, the Courant announced another 150 layoffs, including 30 in the newsroom<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">It&#8217;s hard not to see this as part of the death spiral.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s a newspaperman, who cares about his newspapers. It&#8217;s not at all clear what Zell was looking to do, but besides himself he&#8217;s managed to destroy a fair number of newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s oldest newspaper. It&#8217;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&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}