My last words on the Belo layoffs

Media companies should cover the hell out of the things they can bring unique insight to and lead their readers to other, better sources for the rest. (Heresy, for an old-media type, I know.) So, after this note I'm ceding all further comment to Eric Celeste and to the Frontburner crew, and going back to our stuff. (Eric has also become a clearinghouse for journo job openings for the newly displaced.)

I think this correspondent on the Frontburner may have been right. You have to go pretty far back in the A section of today's paper to find a byline that isn't wire or Washington bureau. Lots of wire on the Overnight page, too. Personal Technology Thursday is gone, as of next week. Probably the right call, as the section certainly wasn't locally-driven content, but I'll personally miss it.

At his day job, Eric notes some other DMN changes (and reversed changes) in the offing.

Kudos to Eric and Adam for (mostly) refusing to name names. It's their perogative. Brickbats to the DMN for failing to cover the story in their own pages. They run a front-Business section story and photo every time someone higher-ranking than receptionist gets promoted, you'd think they'd cover the layoff. (I know it was mentioned in earlier stories, but nothing today.)

And Gary West? Three days before the Breeders Cup? Unbelievable.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

UPDATE: A reader points out that there was actually a small blurb on page 10 of the Business section. Bully bully.

Comments

[Bruce]

It was just so small most people missed it...a tiny blurb of perhaps 100 words under heading "Local Briefs" on page 10d (Business). Pretty typical sorry behavior from TDMN where it's people are concerned, a huge reason I left there and not dissimilar to the way they threw out people at the DTH.