We’re not above asking for donations. But none of us do this for a living and the money pays for servers, drive space, and bandwidth. The Concord Monitor is a Daily Newspaper with a physical footprint and a payroll, and the #VirusEconomy is hitting them hard.
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This means that the Democrat’s pandemic dempanic narrative risks taking out one of their media champions. You can feel the irony. The same folks who demanded we shut the economy down for political purposes (they think it will help them beat Trump and Democrats) are starving their own stenographer.
More ironically, another left-wing prescription (kill the economy to end Trump) has – like every other left-Wing remedy – unadvertised consequences. Or should we call them side effects?
Please save the liberals baby from getting thrown out with the bathwater.
Yes, New Hampshire’s Liberal Paper of Record has penned a plea on its front page. Please sir, a small donation to keep us afloat until Trump has been destroyed. I mean, until the virus thing is over. We’re local. And you need local journalism.
That’s what they ‘re calling it? Well, I suppose they think that is what they are doing. And I’d hate to see them go completely. The Monitor is a continuous source of amusement. But not just in Concord. When I looked up their parent company, I discovered something that brings clarity to the nonsense we find in other local papers.
Newspapers of New England, which owns the Concord Monitor, also owns the Valley News, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and the Amherst Bulletin. All of whom have significantly fewer online readers than GraniteGrok.com. A problem they need to solve if they want to continue to pretend to be journalists.
A problem not limited to liberal print media. Just a step to our left, in the People’s Republic of Vermont, a lefty Grok-Like equivalent is struggling to survive. Vermont Digger spews liberal nonsense daily. But the spew isn’t bringing in the ad revenue it once did.
Seven Days Vermont reports that,
“…15 of VTDigger’s 17 editorial staffers have signed a petition seeking recognition. The bargaining unit, called the VTDigger Guild, represents full- and part-time reporters, photographers, interns and fellows, as well as staff columnists.”
The guild will represent the interests of all parties as an equal in negotiations with the owner and editor, Anne Galloway.
Galloway can refuse to voluntarily recognize the wishes of her stable of SJW’s but then they’ll just organize anyway. At which point, Ann may decide to fire them all, shut down the portal, and move the salvaged resources to some other effort.
The alternative is dealing with the demands of a union, which, in a cash-strapped business model has never, to my recollection, produced anything but unemployment.
The same crisis the Monitor is trying to avert.
And while we wish them luck in their efforts we would like to remind them that most days more people visit us online and the cure to the disease that is “killing them” might not be within their ideological toolbox.
