Milwaukee Journal Sentinel BLOWS UP Their Obituaries!

In what is one of the strangest moves that I can think of…the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel print edition blew up its obituaries. A few years ago when they phased out their classified ad section, MJS moved the obits to the back pages of the Business Section. Except they didn’t call…

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USA Today Network – Wisconsin Sucks

Blogging Blue has published a couple of things recently about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (digital presence JSOnline.com). Zach brought us The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Laughable Plea For Subscribers and earlier I presented Journalism In Milwaukee Takes Another Hit. Just to make this clear I am a long long time subscriber…

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Laugable Plea For Subscribers

“As an Ohio newspaper dies, it’s clear subscribers must preserve reporting essential to our democracy” reads the headline from an opinion piece by George Stanley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Perhaps if George Stanley were so concerned about retaining or recruiting subscribers he wouldn’t have spent years slanting the news…

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Trump’s Support In Wisconsin?

I am not going to go into great detail on who in Wisconsin supports Donald Trump…I’ll let the article speak for itself. It gets into breakdowns of college/non-college, rural/urban, gender, religious/not, etc. So if you are a policy wonk, you’ll love it. Here’s the intro though so you can get…

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Journalism In Milwaukee Takes Another Hit

Gannett Co, the owner of USA Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and 98 other papers) is being acquired by GateHouse Media (which if you trace the lineage is a division of Japanese company Softbank). This is being touted as a great way to preserve for profit print journalism in…

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Shame On Me For Missing This: Racism at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

this came up in the Blogging Blue Twitter feed. I am disgusted with myself for not understanding what I was reading…on Saturday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Green Sheet includes a news quiz with multiple choice answers: And the tweet that brought this to my attention: Today @js_newswatch decided that a…

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Whither Blogging Blue: JSOnline Pay Wall

As most of you are probably aware, I rely pretty heavily on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its online presence, JSOnline, for state, Milwaukee county and local news. Late last month JSOnline tightened its pay wall and many of you might not be able to read the entire article that…

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What’s With The Scare Tactics On Social Security Taxes?

No, really. Something that occurs nearly every year will occur again Januray 1, 2019, and everybody at the margin knows it’s going to happen and will probably just shrug. But here is the headline as it appeared in the Ideas Lab section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday October…

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The Media Needs To Correctly Tell This Story On The Pipe Bomber!

In their attempt to ‘give us some background’ on the Domestic Terrorist, Cesar Soyac, an article published in US Today and reprinted in this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had this to say about his actions: Sayoc, 56, now stands accused of doing something very real: Mailing pipe bombs to more…

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Unintended Consequences From The Trump Tariffs:

This little snippet appeared in today’s print edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel but was originally published in the Green Bay Press Gazette: Tariff trouble: Brown County businesses face challenges as more tariffs loom. [side not to MJS: if you are going to print it you should share it on…

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