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Dayton Daily News may be up for sale

For years- Cox Enterprises refused to sign a contract with most of their unions. All of a sudden, every bargaining unit is under contract. There has been a mad rush to create new online properties like Dayton.com, which is laughably late- and an amateur production. They recently offered a digital subscription for $20 a year- Read More

Time to fire the “community development” manager

Despite being bombed into the ground during WWII, Berlin today looks much like prewar Berlin. In London, despite being bombed, landmarks all don’t show the marks of war. In Dayton, someone makes a permitting mistake, a demolition contractor begins to demolish a building that wasn’t supposed to be torn down- and they let the work Read More

WHIOTV makes up news as they go along

This “story” that WHIOTV ran today, is a prime example of manufactured news. http://www.whiotv.com/videos/news/columbus-craigslist-laptop-thefts/vf2b8/ Unfortunately- I can’t embed it here, like I can the well produced and much more factual story run by the Columbus station that got the story first. This was a laptop that I found on Craigslist. I sent my employee- Matthew Read More

And the survey said: DDn to restructure

The reason the Dayton Daily news has lost readership isn’t that they have a liberal bias, or make idiotic endorsements, the reason the Dayton Daily news has lost readership is that they don’t write interesting stories. With a huge staff (the billboards brag about 1,000 people to “serve you”) the best they can publish is Read More