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List of Santa Cruz Sentinel Layoffs
... apparently, the Sentinel doesn't want to reveal who has been laid off. Here is the list.
Reporters: Matt King, Roger Sideman, Soraya Gutierrez, Daniel Lopez and Isiah Guzman
Photographer: Kate Falconer
Copy deskers: Max DeNike and Jonathan Whitaker
Source: now deleted posting by Matt King to his blog on the night of June 26th, 2007. Preserved in its entirety at the URL below.
Photographer: Kate Falconer
Copy deskers: Max DeNike and Jonathan Whitaker
Source: now deleted posting by Matt King to his blog on the night of June 26th, 2007. Preserved in its entirety at the URL below.
For more information:
http://santacruzschools.org/wordpress/?p=3
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so they have about two reporters left?
OFten their website is just repeating AP topics anyway. I find that there is a lot going on in Santa Cruz that goes uncommented upon in the Sentinel
OFten their website is just repeating AP topics anyway. I find that there is a lot going on in Santa Cruz that goes uncommented upon in the Sentinel
I find it interesting how little respect the Sentinel has for its workers. No farewell, thanks for service, and apologies on their front page. And the one fired reporter that says something about it has their blog deleted.
I doubt that this just about printed “news” loosing its popularity. It may have more to do with the fact that the Sentinel doesn't actually report the “news”, at least not in an honest way that most Santa Cruzens can stomach. They are a poorly done rightwing corporate paper in a town that, by and large, despises them.
I doubt that this just about printed “news” loosing its popularity. It may have more to do with the fact that the Sentinel doesn't actually report the “news”, at least not in an honest way that most Santa Cruzens can stomach. They are a poorly done rightwing corporate paper in a town that, by and large, despises them.
The Sentinel is was previously owned by Dow Jones Co., who also own the Wall Street Journal (though they may also be taken over by Murdoch of FOX fame).
See http://penpressclub.org/2007/05/santa-cruz-sentinel-was-sold-for-45
"In October, Dow Jones & Co. sold the Sentinel and five other dailies in other parts of the country to Alabama-based Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. for $282.5 million. At the time, MediaNews had bid on the Sentinel, but Dow Jones wanted to sell the five papers as a package, not individually to different owners. The Sentinel was Community Newspaper's only asset west of Texas, however, and soon the firm agreed to sell it to MediaNews, which owns 11 dailies in the Bay Area."
"After taking over, MediaNews has voided the contract with the paper's unionized press operators, shut down the paper's presses and started printing the Sentinel in San Jose. MediaNews is also planning to sell the paper's 54,000-square-foot downtown building and move the staff into leased space."
The Sentinel's editorial policy has always been the same as the Wall Street Journal, but one must feel some sympathy for many of the reporters who were simply trying to do a good job of reporting the local news - even if they were not allowed to cover many topics.
Obviously, the editor of the Sentinel is serving the interests of the current owners, not the interests of the employees or of the region.
See http://penpressclub.org/2007/05/santa-cruz-sentinel-was-sold-for-45
"In October, Dow Jones & Co. sold the Sentinel and five other dailies in other parts of the country to Alabama-based Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. for $282.5 million. At the time, MediaNews had bid on the Sentinel, but Dow Jones wanted to sell the five papers as a package, not individually to different owners. The Sentinel was Community Newspaper's only asset west of Texas, however, and soon the firm agreed to sell it to MediaNews, which owns 11 dailies in the Bay Area."
"After taking over, MediaNews has voided the contract with the paper's unionized press operators, shut down the paper's presses and started printing the Sentinel in San Jose. MediaNews is also planning to sell the paper's 54,000-square-foot downtown building and move the staff into leased space."
The Sentinel's editorial policy has always been the same as the Wall Street Journal, but one must feel some sympathy for many of the reporters who were simply trying to do a good job of reporting the local news - even if they were not allowed to cover many topics.
Obviously, the editor of the Sentinel is serving the interests of the current owners, not the interests of the employees or of the region.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/26/18182441.php
"Media News Group wants to merge and acquire. So much so that they started buying up properties before the laws changed because they were so sure they would change. They buy up multiple properties in the same market and have shown a growing tendency towards secrecy in their holdings. Media News Group influences legislation so that they can continue to merge and acquire. They have the son of the Bush Administration's former Secretary of State to thank for changes in laws that allow them to grow. Continued mergers and acquisitions give Media News Group control over advertising rates and public opinion/dissemination of information in major markets. Their continued long term growth depends on continued relaxation of laws regarding cross ownership of media properties. Media News Group supported George W. Bush for President."
"Media news group has initiated a near total blackout on coverage of the election fraud issue, an issue that could potentially remove the republicans from office, thereby resulting in the election of a government less friendly to loosening of FCC cross ownership law, severely hampering their ability to merge, acquire and thus grow. This could force them to divest themselves of properties, limit their ability to control advertising rates and information, destroy their growth potential. That is, if fraud where proven and the elections invalidated."
Looks like all the local papers will be sinking to even lower lows in their news reporting.
"Media News Group wants to merge and acquire. So much so that they started buying up properties before the laws changed because they were so sure they would change. They buy up multiple properties in the same market and have shown a growing tendency towards secrecy in their holdings. Media News Group influences legislation so that they can continue to merge and acquire. They have the son of the Bush Administration's former Secretary of State to thank for changes in laws that allow them to grow. Continued mergers and acquisitions give Media News Group control over advertising rates and public opinion/dissemination of information in major markets. Their continued long term growth depends on continued relaxation of laws regarding cross ownership of media properties. Media News Group supported George W. Bush for President."
"Media news group has initiated a near total blackout on coverage of the election fraud issue, an issue that could potentially remove the republicans from office, thereby resulting in the election of a government less friendly to loosening of FCC cross ownership law, severely hampering their ability to merge, acquire and thus grow. This could force them to divest themselves of properties, limit their ability to control advertising rates and information, destroy their growth potential. That is, if fraud where proven and the elections invalidated."
Looks like all the local papers will be sinking to even lower lows in their news reporting.
there often aren't many stories in the Sentinel except for crime reporting, which was half delivered to them by staff getting paid more. It's hard to even be biased if you don't really write anything.
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As We See It: Oh, that slanted media
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/June/26/edit/stories/01edit.htm
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As We See It: Oh, that slanted media
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/June/26/edit/stories/01edit.htm
The following is my response to the Sentinel’s recent editorial:
As We See It: Oh, that slanted media
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/June/26/edit/stories/01edit.htm
Like just about everything else from the Sentinel this article ignores the most important facts. While there are many rightist talk shows that promote an agenda of sexism, racism, capitalism, and imperialism, there are no leftist talk shows in the corporate media. The few liberal talk shows that exist, liberal that is and not leftist, support the Democrat Party, the same party that voted for the war in Iraq and the so-called "Patriot Act" while at the same time in its majority opposing single payer healthcare. Likewise, the so-called evidence of bias by the corporate media from the rightists is of reporters giving money to that same pro-war capitalist Democrat Party. There is bias in reporting indeed, but there is no left-wing bias. The left, and with it the truth of what is really going on, is completely excluded from the corporate media both in talk radio and in print.
As We See It: Oh, that slanted media
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/June/26/edit/stories/01edit.htm
Like just about everything else from the Sentinel this article ignores the most important facts. While there are many rightist talk shows that promote an agenda of sexism, racism, capitalism, and imperialism, there are no leftist talk shows in the corporate media. The few liberal talk shows that exist, liberal that is and not leftist, support the Democrat Party, the same party that voted for the war in Iraq and the so-called "Patriot Act" while at the same time in its majority opposing single payer healthcare. Likewise, the so-called evidence of bias by the corporate media from the rightists is of reporters giving money to that same pro-war capitalist Democrat Party. There is bias in reporting indeed, but there is no left-wing bias. The left, and with it the truth of what is really going on, is completely excluded from the corporate media both in talk radio and in print.
this is also a weird editorial.
What they're saying isn't particularly interesting or unreasonable, yet why make such a point of supporting the institution of the grand jury system.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/July/01/edit/stories/01edit.htm
What they're saying isn't particularly interesting or unreasonable, yet why make such a point of supporting the institution of the grand jury system.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/July/01/edit/stories/01edit.htm
Brittle Broadsheet
Even though he was technically unemployed Tuesday night June 26, Matt King was still a reporter. Getting laid off the previous evening by the Santa Cruz Sentinel didn’t stop King from breaking one of the biggest stories to hit local media in years.
http://www.gtweekly.com/7-5-07/brittle-broadsheet
Even though he was technically unemployed Tuesday night June 26, Matt King was still a reporter. Getting laid off the previous evening by the Santa Cruz Sentinel didn’t stop King from breaking one of the biggest stories to hit local media in years.
http://www.gtweekly.com/7-5-07/brittle-broadsheet
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