St. Louis Major Slay: St. Louis Post Dispatch a Chore to Read
A slightly interesting article by Sylvester Brown of the St. Louis Post Dispatch in today's paper, titled "In his blog, Slay puts Post Dispatch on the block". A few of Brown's points:
That's a pretty strong statement.............I'm not a fan or a critic of Slay who like all metro elected officials is a democrat. He seems to be doing a decent job trying to turn a metro area around that was in ruins just a few years ago. He also seems to be more of a moderate from a political perspective than a radical, so I'd give him a thumbs-up rather than a thumbs-down. That said he is right on the money about reading the Post Dispatch, it is a chore that I simply often just skip.....................It's more than a chore, it's down right painful if your a reasonably informed person.............It's simply a bad paper in a one paper town that to top things off, is as liberal leaning in it's coverage as the NYT or the LAT.........What a treat.....................I could imagine a business group arriving in STL and after reading the Post wondering out-loud if they had landed in Berkeley in error....................
When the democratic Mayor of STL says publicly that the Post Dispatch is a colossal failure, you know it's a really bad paper..................Slay's right the paper is a failure both from a reporting and business perspective. It's simply out of touch and has become irrelevant. He is also right that free markets do a very effective job of taking care of such products.................
Brown, the most liberal reporter on the staff if you don't count Eric Mink, is advocating that the Post take off the gloves and go after Slay:
This could get interesting and probably is worth pulling up a chair and watching................................
In his blog entry (www.mayorslay.com) Wednesday, Slay wrote that the purchase of the Post by Iowa-based Lee Enterprises last year might have been a bad investment.
"The P-D's spotty and often inaccurate coverage of local, state, national, and international news has made opening the hometown newspaper a chore fewer and fewer St. Louisans are willing to face each morning," Slay wrote.....................
That's a pretty strong statement.............I'm not a fan or a critic of Slay who like all metro elected officials is a democrat. He seems to be doing a decent job trying to turn a metro area around that was in ruins just a few years ago. He also seems to be more of a moderate from a political perspective than a radical, so I'd give him a thumbs-up rather than a thumbs-down. That said he is right on the money about reading the Post Dispatch, it is a chore that I simply often just skip.....................It's more than a chore, it's down right painful if your a reasonably informed person.............It's simply a bad paper in a one paper town that to top things off, is as liberal leaning in it's coverage as the NYT or the LAT.........What a treat.....................I could imagine a business group arriving in STL and after reading the Post wondering out-loud if they had landed in Berkeley in error....................
When the democratic Mayor of STL says publicly that the Post Dispatch is a colossal failure, you know it's a really bad paper..................Slay's right the paper is a failure both from a reporting and business perspective. It's simply out of touch and has become irrelevant. He is also right that free markets do a very effective job of taking care of such products.................
Brown, the most liberal reporter on the staff if you don't count Eric Mink, is advocating that the Post take off the gloves and go after Slay:
Maybe now, before he and his powerful allies come up with a lucrative, irrefutable proposal, this publication ought to give him something to watch.
This could get interesting and probably is worth pulling up a chair and watching................................
posted by Steve at 8:44 PM
