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SoFlo: LOCAL
NEWSPAPERS' CONTRACTIONS - (2#) -

This past weekend both local newspapers published columns discussing their current contraction process.

The Miami Herald ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos, is inviting readers' views. Since I don't live in Miami-Dade, I don't want to inject myself too much in this matter, but I urge those of you who are part of their regular and ongoing readership to read his column about this issue, in case you didn't catch it on printed pulp paper in yesterday's Sunday edition.

Step away from that tinfoil helmet... Conspiracy theories aside, the ombudsman discloses that a group of 15 VIPs have been meeting over the past four months to discuss how they think The Herald should be, so that they can make their own recommendations.

He concludes: "Your input will be important.
Please send me your ideas."

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The (Broward County) Sun-Sentinel shares some problems in common with other American newspapers. But it has its own peculiar problems as well. Most prominently:

Rednecks don't read;
reading is not an integral aspect of their culture.

Be that as it may, the top Editor has a column about this issue, too. His approach is in sharp contrast to that of the Herald:

He talks; you listen. Period!

You are not invited to respond to his remarks or to share your views. You are only allowed to pose a question. You may address it to "Ask the Editor."

Since I moved down here to Florida, this newspaper has really deteriorated. And I am not optimistic about its future.

:: Herald :: ..... :: Sentinel ::

+ I have been dodging thunderstorms around here lately. They arrived early yesterday at about 1:30pm, so that most of the rest of the day and evening was almost a complete washout.

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