The Courier-Journal’s parent company continued its downhill slide with today’s announcement that profits are off by 9 percent in the first quarter, with the company’s revenue down sharply toward the end of the quarter. One analyst wrote that classified revenue is off 16 percent, (which you could confirm by taking a look at Sunday’s C-J) […]

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Rick wrote about it last week in LEO.
Now the Courier-Journal’s new look is live and I think it sucks. Drab colors, doesn’t at all feel like a newspaper, difficult to find breaking news as it’s all subdued under a pastel “LATEST HEADLINES” section - and speaking of headlines, only the headlines of stories (the […]

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If you’re like me, you’ve probably forgotten the regular chuckles that arose from seeing Nick Anderson’s skewering of local politicians in the Courier-Journal.
Gee, has it been two years since he left? Yes. Almost exactly, I loooked it up.
Seeing Pam Platt’s piece on editorial cartoonists in our country got me thinking about Anderson, a Pulitzer […]

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