[NEW STORY ON THE SENIOR CENTER--7:15PM, Saturday--Scroll down]
ADAPT OR DIE
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper has been put up for sale. Owner Hearst Corp. says if no buyers show up in the next 60 days it'll shut the paper down or only let it continue online.
Most owners of newspapers like to make a profit. That's not happening with many newspapers these days as those who run them seem to be having a difficult time in adapting to modern realities.
Take a look at the Katrina Foley Almost Daily Daily Pilot as an example of a newspaper that is simply not adapting or is adapting too slowly. It seems those running the KFADDP still think they can bore people into reading the paper and that they can move things as slowly as they once did.
For example, the newspaper is carrying blogs to attract readers, but at least one of these blogs is dated June 25, 2008 and another one is written by a local crackpot who most serious people don't read.
When people comment on stories at the KFADDP it's usually the same five or six people who do so. And, this includes some who are clearly barely literate.
Come on KFADDP, you can do better. We're rooting for you to adapt and stay in business. We really do like having an almost daily newspaper in the twin cities of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.(Okay, so one twin is slightly prettier than the other--hey, we didn't say they were identical twins. Maybe, like, they're fraternal twins. Well, geez, maybe they're not really twins but are sort of related like cousins or maybe they had different fathers. Come on, you get the point.)
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THE LATEST ON THE SENIOR CENTER (Saturday, 1/10/08, 7:15 PM)
In a column today in the OCR about the Costa Mesa Senior Center and the committee that the City Council approved to take a look at the center (but only if the Senior Corporation's board approves of the committee), we read this:
Board member Scheafer said the board never had a breakdown in communication with the city until Leece stepped in and that having a committee may be a lost cause."Gary (Monahan)'s comment was that he wants to do it to enhance and maybe increase the funding from the city - he's not getting any support for that," Scheafer said. "There's already animosity for us among the big three (referring to Leece and councilmen Allan Mansoor and Eric Bever)."
Maybe we have it wrong, but does it sound as though failed City Council candidate Scheafer doesn't want to go along with the committee idea?
You may recall that Scheafer and Bruce Garlich (who is also on the Senior board with Scheafer) were defeated in the 2006 City Council election by Wendy Leece and Allan Mansoor.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
