The TU was never a conservative newspaper. Media gatekeeping became liberal indoctrination. Local newspapers led the sad charge, and you were part of it.

All the ex-journos I knew from the T-U are all libs.
The region, with its military citizenry, is right-center, maybe even right. But not the paper, and even less so now.

Therein lies the problem – not reflecting the values of your customer base.

The general assumption that a liberal bias is the reason daily general newspapers are losing circulation is false. Conservative newspapers are also losing circulation.

The Times-Union, over the three year period from 2015 to 2017 lost 28.2% of its circulation. During the same three years the Tallahassee Democrat lost 16.5% of its circulation.

The most likely reason for the loss of circulation by the general daily newspapers is the rise of the internet, the rise of many news sources, the rise of Facebook, as well as other technological improvements in smart phones, and, Twitter, to name a few.

The days of media gatekeepers are numbered. General circulation newspapers are gatekeepers.

Well, after a weekend where POTUS was cleared, I would proffer that as Exhibit A to your point. $40Million of our tax dollars piddled away on 2 1/2 years worth of investigating THAT YIELDED NOTHING (other than process crimes by a few bit players). All the time the Lamestream Media breathlessly telling us the end of Trump’s presidency was near. LOL!!! WRONG!!!
They all blew it, doubling down on stupid.
If they had a hair of credibility before, even that’s gone now.

More like: “Is this the break-the-glass beginning of the end for the Fake News biz?”

Interesting how the article simply makes a case for declaring newspapers as ailing. But these excellent commenters make the case for the much more interesting question of WHY.

I agree teachers should be paid more… at least double or triple what they are being paid now for starters…

The notebook had no merit. The facts is it was totally a hit job by Hanna.The U.S. Attorney closed the case with no finding of any merit. Rocky Hanna lied, his new confidant John Hunkiar should immediately forward the ethics violation of Rocky Hanna to the Commissioner and Governor. Given John was given a raise by Rocky, odds are he will be silent.
So you are ok with Assistant Superintendents who have office jobs, they do not teach or provide direct contact with students making over $100,000 while teachers in Leon County are the 46 lowest paid in the state. Rocky Hanna should be charged with a crime, the school board should be charged with negligence.

Wow, Ben, you must be a glutton for punishment to delay canceling your subscription to the local leftwing rag and their “Propaganda Today” insert for so long. Congrats for finally seeing the light!

You were lucky to get one article out of the Tallahassee Democrat as they have not done any articles on thousands of things that should have been exposed.

I believe some of the things in The Notebook had Merit.

I agree that you should pay child support for your child.

There are always shake-ups in job situations when there is New Management.

Cost overruns on projects are not new.

Perhaps the graduation rate should be looked at more closely.

I believe $100,000 salaries are appropriate for assistant superintendents and possibly should be more.