The Sunday Paper - new and improved for ad revenue, smaller staff!

The Morning Scratch - SUNDAY

Editor's note: The Morning Scratch is launching a Sunday edition in an attempt to make itself more appealing in a faltering journalism industry. Won't you read this paper and keep me in my overpaid editor position? Here, you will get links to the must-read posts and stories of the week in the Cat Blogosphere and beyond. And if you don't read our Sunday paper, OK. What do I really care? I just want another way to collect ad revenue. And, yes, this is just links to other paper's stories. No original content. That's because in order to cut costs, we had to lay off most of the copy editors and reporters. Don't you want to read us now?
- Bogdan, the editor

Reporter's note: We care if you read it! (Sara: "Hey, guys. We should have started a union.")

The slow, painful death of journalism

Kat 3 prepares to bunny-kick a Business section:
"Bad editors! Bad editors!"

Who the neck feeds copy Editors? We has spellcheck.
"The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading. No longer can we say that the editor's penis mightier than the sword. The sword's main foe is a computer now, and the computer is up to to the task."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902920.html

Your local city council meeting story, written and edited...
from India!
"An Indian company will take over copy editing duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper at the company that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the newspaper confirmed Tuesday."

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D91GQIK80.htm

News you can use! (What to do with these "improved" newspapers.)
http://daisythecurlycat.blogspot.com/2008/06/wordless-wednesday-news-you-can-use.html

Daisy shows off the latest fashion trend: Don't read the paper...
wear it!

Or ... fill your litter box with it, and poop on it!!

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But ... Easy Like Sunday Morning:
A breath of fresh air

The wind direction changed, and here on the Central Coast, the sky finally turned blue-tiful.

To see where the fires are in California.
http://www.oes.ca.gov/WebPage/oeswebsite.nsf/InteractiveMap?readForm
(We are to the south of the two fires south of Santa Cruz)

Kitty survives Trabing wildfire that destroys its home.
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_9728002?nclick_check=1

More on the Big Sur fire, near us.
(The Investor is very worried for some of the most beautiful and beloved spots in the WORLD).
Among the sites in Big Sur that are threatened is the home of Henry Miller.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9725016

UPDATE: It appears the San Jose Mercury News links no longer work. But I'm going to keep up the links just because. Maybe the tyrant owner Singleton doesn't want anyone linking to his newspaper who is critical of the "kill journalism" approach management is taking at nearly all U.S. papers today. The links likely died for another reason... but it's more entertaining to think it's the first reason.