The Tribune Responds

If I target someone in a post and they respond in the comment section, I generally move their comments into the main body of the blog so they have an equal footing.  The Tribune's Le Templar takes issue with my Mainstream Media Meltdown post.  Here are his comments. 

I hope readers will take note of this story that appeared Wednesday in the Tribune that points out the serious errors made in last week's Business Journal story: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/102465

I also need to note that Greg continues to print an significant error in his discussion of the Tribune business model. We are adding free single-copy placement and free home delivery of our new local news section to our portfolio of products in some areas. But the Tribune is NOT replacing all paid subscriptions with free newspapers. If you pay for the full newspaper today, you will have to pay to receive the full newspaper tomorrow. (The free versions do not include sports, the nation/world section or other sections we include throughout the week.)

Management did make the hard decision to stop subscription delivery in some outlying areas as a move to better match delivery costs with subscription revenue. But our total number of paid subscriptions has remained remarkably steady despite all of the recent changes.
Greg's statement that the Tribune has basically become the State Press with 70,000 papers is simply hogwash.

Comments

[Renata Nunez]

Why insult the State Press by comparing the EV Tribune to it?

[TEY]

Le, what's the Trib's circ been like in the last six months? The Business Journal spells it out. Ed's story doesn't even mention it. Please give us the facts.

[Timothy]

I let my Trib sub lapse a month ago. I still, today, get both the free and the paid version. Circulation is one number. Paid is another. And the percentage of snowbirds reading it is yet another. I think this means the Trib's role in our democracy, in forming electorally-relevant political opinions, is decreasing.

[Mesa Econoguy]

Newspaper circulation is dead, due to technology (substitution effect) and the fundamental stupidity of journalists. Anyone can do their job. Most can do it better than they do.

Greg is a perfect example.

The Trib will be extinct in 5 years (if not sooner), and most “papers” will be gone in 10. In the case of the AZ Repugnant, that will be considered community service.

[Travis]

Le, Your corrections to Greg's posts were non-correction corrections. You disagree with his characterizations and his predictions, but that is not correcting.

This is actually an interesting comparison to the media model. I have direct knowledge of incorrect information being printed in the Tribune and the machine to correct it was slow, not equal to the misinformation damage and frustrating.

Here you were given an equal opportunity to make your point. I like being able to decide for myself and this forum allows for that.

[Guy LaFleur]

Kudos to Greg for not only allowing opposition comments to be posted on this site, but for also highlighting comments. That's a far cry from Ted Prezelski's blog - My comments there never seem to make it past the "Tedski Filter".