LizzieMaine
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Basically, all four local papers from here to Ellsworth (about fifty miles up the coast) were bought up in 2008 by a "new media" con man from Chicago who had big visions of turning them into a "New Vision Of Participatory Journalism." What he ended up doing was alienating most of the readers by rearranging the papers to suit his vision, which meant eliminating almost all hard news content in favor of touchy-feely features on "what it means to live in Maine." Those of us who've lived here for generations don't need or want to be fed that kind of crap -- all we want to know is who died, who won, who's been arrested this week, and what halfwits on the city council voted for the pay-per-bag disposal fee at the dump. In other words, just another big-city blowhard coming to town to show the rubes what it's all about -- only nobody was buying it.
I have a lot of friends who worked at the paper -- some for as long as 27 years -- and it's a real blow to them to find out they've lost their jobs by seeing it on the website rather than being told to their faces.
So it's not just us who've been bamboozled by this operator -- three other towns have lost their hundred-plus-year-old papers as well, and for no good reason.
I have a lot of friends who worked at the paper -- some for as long as 27 years -- and it's a real blow to them to find out they've lost their jobs by seeing it on the website rather than being told to their faces.
So it's not just us who've been bamboozled by this operator -- three other towns have lost their hundred-plus-year-old papers as well, and for no good reason.