{"id":16,"date":"2006-03-14T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:30:43","slug":"the-duluth-news-tribs-turn-on-the-dinner-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"The Duluth News Tribune &#8211; on the dinner plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I felt bad about sniping that the Trib had swallowed up the Budgeteer <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora06\/dangercartoons.htm\"><strong>in my last column<\/strong><\/a><strong> when I heard that the Trib itself had just been swallowed up the McClatchy Company (owners of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune). And then I felt bad all over again when the McClatchy\u00a0folks said that they were going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthsuperior.com\/mld\/duluthsuperior\/14093956.htm\">sell it off too<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media empires are no respectors of local tradition. Although they have an interest in it from a commercial point of view (as long as maintaining it will keep their properties profitible). John Myers, the President of the DNT&#8217;s Newspaper Guild, said something about the DNT earning a 20% profit on MPR&#8217;s\u00a0story about the sale. I have my doubts about that figure. It sounds more like the earnings figures thrown around by a union as it heads into salary negotiations. Most businesses are lucky to make a 3 percent profit. I doubt that Knight Ridder would have wanted to sell off anything that made that kind of money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now\u00a0the Trib has suffered the same fate as several local radio stations which were swallowed up by the infamous Clear Channel and KDLH television. I can&#8217;t help but wonder if\u00a0and when Bob Boone will sell\u00a0his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readerweekly.us\/index.html\">Reader Weekly<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0some humongous tabloid conglomerate. I know he&#8217;s carped about them before. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If he did my column could be replaced\u00a0by some generic nationally syndicated column. If that happened I&#8217;m sure the Duluth NewsTribune would get\u00a0a good laugh out of my embarassment. My only hope is to\u00a0keep working for coupons.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt bad about sniping that the Trib had swallowed up the Budgeteer in my last column when I heard that the Trib itself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21213,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/21213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}