“I’m not blaming the messenger for the message.”

I meant to add that I do blame the messenger for tone, and I do so out of hyperbolic petulance.

I apologize for leaving that out.

@Richard in particular: I realize it’s the content producers and ad revenue that will keep people (and funding) coming to Web end of the paper, but it wouldn’t be possible or practical without the online department working to make the experience as pleasant, easy, and convenient as possible.

@Bob: I blame, yes, but I don’t intend to shoot.

I’m not blaming the messenger for the message. The message is what it is.

I mean no offense, Bob. The truth is, I tend to use you as a convenient metaphor for media’s pop prognosticators as a whole.

I mean, actually, to point out that you’re working in one medium that’s been through a great deal of strife already. But radio pulls through.

What I really want to know, Bob, and this is why I’m glad I called you out, is which lessons can we learn from the struggle between radio and TV that apply to the newspaper’s struggle with the internet?

*Like Randal notes, the Rocky employees will get paid until sometime in late April.

And they did have an idea that this was coming. When they learned that the paper was being sold, they were told that Scripps was searching for a buyer and that they had a month or so to find one. Well, time ran out and the rest is what it is.

Also, the online department at the CA won’t be the savior of the paper because they aren’t the ones creating most of the content that goes on the site nor are they the ones hitting the streets to get advertisers to buy ads. I’m just sayin, it just helps to have some perspective because online departments have been, and will probably be, impacted by cuts like everyone else.

No one is really safe anymore. With that said, I share your optimism about newspapers. Nicely stated.

Small comfort, I know, but it’s (slightly) better than “Hi, you’re fired.”