Sun Times Dying?
An interesting thing readers have noticed lately. You pull up the Sun Times website (we'd never spend money on that rag) and you see an interesting story, like the one about Officers suing Rahm for dumping them off the security detail. You get a very short paragraph:
- Lawyers for 11 Chicago police officers who claim Mayor Rahm Emanuel removed them from his security detail for political reasons when he took office in 2011 have asked a federal judge to order the mayor to sit for a deposition as part of their ongoing lawsuit. The officers, who are all white or Hispanic, alleged in a 2012 complaint that Emanuel actively participated in selecting a new security team that included African-American officers with less seniority as well as officers who had volunteered for his campaign.
Then there's a link at the bottom - which goes to the Tribune pay website.
So, is the Sun Times on its last legs? Are they cutting back on actual reporters and just linking to Trib stories in an effort to generate money-for-traffic-references? The New York Times just laid off another 100+ employees. The print media is dying and the Sun Times seems to be barely hanging on.
So, is the Sun Times on its last legs? Are they cutting back on actual reporters and just linking to Trib stories in an effort to generate money-for-traffic-references? The New York Times just laid off another 100+ employees. The print media is dying and the Sun Times seems to be barely hanging on.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
44 Comments:
its Not like they actual investigate anymore.
All they look into are fake leaks from the clouted and Bull s@#$ lawsuit crap filed at courts .
The paper so thin i can't even use it for my puppies to crap on.
The previous crew left an actual copy of the sun times in the car the other day. If it was 30 pages, I'd be surprised. It looked like a copy of the Red Eye, it was so thin.
funny.hopefully the wife beater Steinberg loses his *job*,oh grumpy mary too.
Ask yourself how many newspapers Chicago needs. Many large cities only have one newspaper.
Or, did somebody hack the Sun Times and post a redirect to the Tribune?
Good riddance. Don't forget to turn off the lights before you leave. And don't forget to take Mary Mitchell.
They are all circling the drain.
I'm their prime demographic, but I will not buy propaganda.
I want news. The whole story, not the narrative, not the spin, not the democrat party press release, not the special interest group press release.
Every time I read a story about something I have first hand knowledge about, the story is factually wrong. Often, the story is obviously wrong when you look at the accompanying photos.
I never buy a newspaper, except for the Sunday ads.
Good and I hope they die quickly. They've led the way in sensationalist bullshit, biased reporting, bad taste, sub-par writing, and unfunny comics for years now. They put the Virginia Tech shooter on the front page with guns in both his hands, like an action-movie hero. But they demand more gun control laws ? They could start by not glorifying sick bastards like that guy, for starters.
The Sun Times will close before 2015. Richard Roeper sold his condo. Just a rumor, but the property on Ashland will be converted to cold storage. The real estate deal is supposed to be all but done.
The Sun Times has ALWAYS been the best newspaper in Chicago. The best for lining the floor pan of my 150,000 + mile squad car in the winter. It absorbs better than the Trib, conforms better and does not desolve as quickly. Penny for penny nothing sucks up the crap like the Times!
Good riddance. I never bought a copy of the paper that paid Mope-rah and Jesse Jackson anyway. And their website is slow too. It won't be missed
I haven't picked up either of the piece of shit rags in about 7 years. Get my news online and watch certain news outlets. I hope both of those agenda driven shit papers go out. You get better info and writing if you read the onion.
The Tribune purchased the Sun-Times properties late last year.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-tribune-sun-times-papers-1101-biz-20141030-story.html#page=1
Sorry to Neil Steinberg and Mary Mitchell. Oh well. There's always McDonalds
i know many people that stopped buying it after they unfairly slammed the police in various occasions. My uncle cancelled his subscription that he had for many years. Who do they think spends money on their paper. Certainly not the bustouts they like cater to and champion. The good people got fed up. (in addition to the whole electronic media thing) there are still old timers that read papers the old way...bad business on their part i say..
Their propaganda isn't selling
The Trib actually prints the Sun Times. Maybe that's how the Sun Times pay for the printing expenses.
Evil deserves to die a slow lingering death.
Ta-Ta Sun-Times.
No keeses for you.
The Sun-Times used to own several suburban newspapers, including the Naperville sun, Aurora Beacon-News, and Elgin Courier-News. They recently sold all of them to the Trib. There may be something to this.
Oh Great! Now what am I supposed to use to line my Parrot cage
"Are they cutting back on actual reporters?"
Huh? I can remember, maybe in the last century when there were a couple of Slimes reporters that actually knew how to report news.
was reported months ago slum times is going digital and will glean storys from area papers. also owes some big bucks to trib for printing and distribution. plug will be pulled soon. bye mye assholes.
If they try to reinvent themselves as a conservative newspaper it would save them. They would be only legit news source for the working class.
People refuse to pay for lies, tired of hearing about how whitey is keeping everyone down. Meanwhile you can't go to the mall. Advertisers can't sell their goods because you don't sell red pop at Ford City.
Good. With no jobs left, maybe journalism schools will die too, and reporting can return to the investigative procedure it used to be, instead of "the narrative" propaganda tool it's become.
The most valuable property owned by the Sun-Times is The Reader. The rest is garbage without a new way of doing business.
I have some ideas for a new business model that might make money in this digital age but I don't own the Sun-Times so I am not giving them advice for free.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The previous crew left an actual copy of the sun times in the car the other day. If it was 30 pages, I'd be surprised. It looked like a copy of the Red Eye, it was so thin.
and the Trib is 60 pages with 30 pages of ads. Put a fork in both of them
Scum-Slimes has been swirling the toilet bowl like the turd it is, for quite some time now. People are tired of their Troll StFf, communist rhetoric, and overall biased reporting, so, AMF, the sooner the better. Move to Cuba, take your corrupt Chicago Politician Tools with you, Scum Slimes, and GFYS
I cancelled my Sun Times subscription after reading too many articles bashing Bush II, I never read many bashing Willie Jefferson Clinton when he was President. I called and told them why I was cancelling, not that they cared, but I bet they care now.
Let's see if the socialists will bail out your rag now. If they would have remembered the basics of reporting, who, what, when, where, and their responsibility to the citizens, to inform them without bias, instead of reporting with the socialist template in mind, they might have been in better shape.
I'm wondering if in my Detective CHRIS Supps,
I can just write, "Please see the article published
by Peter Nickeas on such and such a date?"
I could then take a longer lunch!
They are done! With steinberg,mitchell,brown and the rest it shows how the actually intelligent people that are pro-law abiding are not reading this lowly rag anymore! The Tribune at least has John Kass is fair,unlike the "reporters" at the Times who are biased, guess deb mel can hold another sign #suntimesgonesoon!
The Times is a rag.
The Tribune is an enemy.
Lunch is the most important meal of the day.
When Obama was running for president, they had "The Progressive Source" atop their pages. No bullshit.
THATS when I stopped reading. They just jumped on the Pro-Bama bandwagon.
BTW, the heading came down after Obummer was elected.
Nothing but phonies.
You S.T. employees that read SCC know it's true.
Their website looks like the Enquirer now also, it's a joke.
Bought a newspaper every day for 50 years. Stopped, got more and better news on line. Realized newspapers have old, stale news in today's world. No need for them. Selling buggywhips. People talk about editorial content, but who in hell would advertise in them? circulation numbers worth shit, and all of it waste!
Ha!! Since when does seniority have anything to do with the mayors detail?
Oh heavens where will I get my Kotschman's saga updates!
Anonymous said...
Oh Great! Now what am I supposed to use to line my Parrot cage
1/10/2015 09:19:00 AM
How about "The Collected Literary Works of Richard M Daley"
Throw some General Orders on top of that.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Good. With no jobs left, maybe journalism schools will die too, and reporting can return to the investigative procedure it used to be, instead of "the narrative" propaganda tool it's become.
1/10/2015 10:37:00 AM
Happiness will be seeing members of local media and their families hunting along the banks of the Ship & Sanitary Canal for river rats to pad their pork n' beans with.
It'll be a much needed laugh in the war against Policemen and their concerns...
"Why are you guys so mean and hateful?
Aren't there rules against that?"
It's really hard to take journalism or press criticism seriously from a bunch who voted for a contract that included 400 new vehicles! The Sun Times is a rag, no doubt, mostly because its owner has no clue what would constitute a journalistically sound publication, but at least the guild writers and editors (yes, they are unionized) didn't vote for a contract that included 400 new desktop computers!!!
Anonymous said...
It's really hard to take journalism or press criticism seriously from a bunch who voted for a contract that included 400 new vehicles! The Sun Times is a rag, no doubt, mostly because its owner has no clue what would constitute a journalistically sound publication, but at least the guild writers and editors (yes, they are unionized) didn't vote for a contract that included 400 new desktop computers!!!
Maybe all the posters here who criticized the media didn't vote for the contract. Typical, you are probably some butt hurt hack journalist.
The scum-times site is buggy and constantly re-boots. I.T. people stopped giving a fuck? MGMT stopped giving a fuck? Well, we know the reporters never gave a fuck.
At least about journalistic integrity and such...
Well, at least the cops have rules to abide by.
>Snicker!<
The little good that does when everything that is modern society is being dragged out to sea.
Thems that ran for high ground are all good.
Thems that got a dinky little boat might be ok.
Thems in the water be imperially fucked...
The media wants to see Policemen being ground to hamburger in the debris filled receding undertow for some odd reason.
Obama's vomit regurgitated via suntimes, No thanks.
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