<p>Today is the last day the print version of the Ann Arbor News will be published. I always liked the AA News and thought it was a good newspaper for both the city and the surrounding townships.</p>
<p>I am glad they are finally gone. The newspaper has nothing good to do but bash the university all the time. Remember the athletic department stunt they pulled and tricked OL Dorrestein into becoming their weapon against U of M?</p>
<p>How bout all their biased opinions against Rich Rod when that fat ass Boren left and the WVU lawsuit?</p>
<p>If columbus dispatch ever pull this kind of crap, they would probably be burned to the ground. Oh but wait…they won’t do that…because local newspaper are supposed to support the university, not have an agenda against it. They should be thankful that we dont burn couches on the street like the bucktards do… and that most Michigan alumni/students are civilized.</p>
<p>I’m sorry you feel that way, but now Ann Arbor residents have reduced access to local news. The loss of a print newspaper in a one newspaper town leaves a big hole.</p>
<p>I guess their is always the Michigan Daily.</p>
<p>mlive is always on. So for the old blue hair to learn to use the computer. It’s free too.</p>
<p>:( that’s shame</p>
<p>Was that AA’s only general daily?? That would be awful to lose. It is not written anywhere that the local paper is a shill for the local university. The Madison papers have exposed many issues at UW that the admin and athletic dept might have wanted kept quiet including the “Shoegate” story which got the UW football team in major NCAA hot water. Universities are not beyond needing a watchdog.</p>
<p>Same in Seattle. Time to grow up. Even UM is not perfect in all things.</p>
<p>The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are widely available, but coverage of Ann Arbor events is peripheral, at best.</p>
<p>Actually, the New York Times sells quite a few copies every day in Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>When you lie to someone to get him to say something, and then take his quote out of context, that’s poor journalism. I have a friend who is one of dorrestein’s best buddies so I think I know more about the situation. </p>
<p>Don’t get me into all their biased publication on Boren, WVU and stuff. It’s not hard to see that they have an agenda.</p>
<p>I am not speaking out against their criticism on the university, but rather the fact that they have an agenda against it. It’s pretty obvious if you ever read the AA News. So good riddance.</p>
<p>Love to see this unethical entity go out of business… I probably should send them a gift basket to congratulate them
People need to stop reading everything in the media and believe them as the truth…</p>
<p>bearcats, I have yet to read one thread where you actually haven’t met the topic of discussion with a hint of cynisism. lol</p>
<p>truth hurts :)</p>
<p>lol at least its entertaining</p>
<p>that’s a by-product :DD</p>
<p>Ahem…they’re not going out of business per se, bearcats, so you’re not exactly getting rid of them…they’re just moving the model online so that you will now be able to DIRECTLY vet their errors and bias : )…they’re owned by Advance, one of the largest private media conglomerates in U.S. (Newhouse boys…think Conde Nast…same owners).</p>
<p>They figured AA was a hip enough demographic to move mostly online, thereby eliminating print costs (except twice a week) while at the same time (MI parent company) getting rid of old, experienced, expensive wood (meaning competent employees) in favor of “online” media regurgitating “journalists.” (No bias here. I will optimistically await proof of being wrong in my denigration. Do not get me wrong, there <em>can</em> be excellence online. But it still takes experience and money to procure : ).</p>
<p>And it is true that all large public institutions should be scrutinized by “objective” watchdogs and that papers <em>should</em> play a vital role in fostering public discourse in a generally non-partisan way. But I have increasingly noticed that much of that depends on the caliber of individual journalist (often lacking due to idiot entry level pay) and the unfortunately highly concentrated media ownership and complete lack of regulation in the USA.</p>
<p>At the same time, it is always sad to see a community loose whatever is left of its paper because those local stories are what feeds the wires, which in turn, feeds those news aggregators online who feel that content should be free as air. In the brave new world, we will “entertain ourselves to death” instead, it would appear. And once there’s no actual news to aggregate, hell, we’ll just let the powers that be make it up : )
Cheers,
K</p>
<p>From today’s The Detroit News</p>
<p>“In mid-March, the News’ 274 employees were told that the newspaper’s owner, Advance Publications, planned to shut their publication. Though a small number of employees are now working for AnnArbor.com, an online news site that will launch Friday, many of the News’ editorial staff are looking for jobs and aren’t counting on being able to stay in journalism.”</p>
<p>I am sure that all 274 former employees will graciously share Bearcats’ opinion.</p>
<p>plenty of bankers and traders are out of jobs too… and I don’t see people reserve their unjust criticism.</p>
<p>So in other words, because you believe the AA News did something that was inappropriate or unethical from a journalism standpoint, (i) 274 people deserve to lose their jobs and (ii) the City of Ann Arbor deserves to lose its only daily newspaper.</p>
<p>Just like the fact that the high level management and executives of investment bank did something wrong from a risk management standpoint</p>
<p>i) thousands of bankers and traders deserve to lost their job
ii) The financial market deserves to lose banks that move the flow of money like Lehman and Bear Stearns</p>
<p>by the way…correction on point 2
ii) The city of Ann Arbor is finally rid of their only biased newspaper with an agenda that does the city no good. </p>
<p>Also, as I said, time to learn to use a computer for many Ann Arbor residents I guess… that’s a good thing</p>
<p>businesses come and go…the bad ones seem to do it quickly</p>
<p>Anyway, why was this Ann Arbor News biased against umich anyway? Any other examples besides Athletics issues?</p>
<p>Have no fear!!!</p>
<p>They still print twice a week =D</p>