Maggie's Farm

Imported cars are piling up in San Diego too. Which just happens to be the home town of the San Diego Union/Tribune, the paper you linked to for the Long Beach imported auto pile up story.

Which leads us to Victor David Hansen's report on journalists and journalism. For there was a time when the U/T would cover local stories like the one Channel 10 covered just yesterday. But now the Usually/Tepid doesn't have the staff to cover local stories, relying on wire services for stories. This a newspaper that once won a Pulitzer for a series of stories on border issues. Today she's reduced to a reprint service.

The San Diego Union Tribune serves as a prime example of why newspapers across this country are failing. Out of touch with their local audience, unwilling to change their self-destructive ways, and showing no imagination or adaptability where the Web is concerned. And this a paper that showed the way at one time. The way things are going now, if the current owner doesn't find a buyer soon San Diego may become the first major city to lose it's daily paper.

There's more to be said about the decline and fall of the U/T, but not in this thread.