Mad men

Much as I love newspapers, there’s only one way for the newspaper advertising spend of intelligent businesses to go: down [...]

Detroit’s paper tigers

Two really smart brothers have announced plans to start a newspaper — like, an actual paper newspaper — in Detroit. The brothers, Mark and Gary Stern, are 63 and 67 years old, and apparently they think it’s still the 1940s. Their paper’s chances of success? The same as the Lion’s Super Bowl prospects this season. [...]

Scrap paper

Fifty-year-old paper boy Martin T. Holtet of Wisconsin pleaded guilty yesterday to bilking The New York Times out of more than $200,000 in bogus subscriptions. The Madoff of paper routes! [...]

Apocalypse News

The bad news just keeps rolling in. Newsosaur Alan Mutter points today to the U.S. newspaper industry’s latest doomsday advertising numbers. [...]

The real slumdogs are in Connecticut

The New Haven Advocate pulled a pretty sharp stunt this week, outsourcing nearly all of the paper’s editorial content to freelance writers in India. That may seem pretty clever. But I wonder if the Indian journos who contributed knew they were being set up as punchlines. Somehow, I doubt it. And that’s not cool. [...]

U-T vs LAPD

Oh, those lovable Los Angeles police. If they’re not sparking devastating citywide riots or bungling murder investigations, they’re trying to stifle free speech. [...]