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The also saw the narrow world view of poorly educated rural farmers and thought the same thing....

Has he ever failed one before? Or are you just hoping he does?

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Link? People living in the burbs tend to better educated, more affluent and larger consumers of ideas/information than their older, less educated and poorer urban counterparts. If anything, that geographic shift should be a plus for newspaper readership...

No different than what Fox, Sinclair, the Washington Times and a host of other right-leaning outlets do on the "other side" of these issues. Tribalism is big business, whether it's right or left in scope...

If you're a major retail advertiser targeting the mass market like Sears, Penney's, Best Buy, Target etc. it's much more efficient to use the BN (with 460,000 daily readers) than podunk press outlets in Batavia, Albion etc. The problem is, those mass market retail chains are getting their lunch eaten by Amazon, Ebay and other online competitors and have less to spend on advertising or are going belly up altogether (Macy's, Bon Ton, Radio Shack, Gander Mountain). Newspapers take it on the chin in those instances. That's why so many are gravitating to entertainment (and yes, that includes editorial stance) rather than hard news reporting as they attempt to carve out an audience they can monetize...

This just in (and it's not fake news). The BN has always been a liberal, democratic-leaning newspaper. As have most large northeastern dailies. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ The thing that's changed is the brick and mortar retail model, not editorial philosophy...

The BN ad model is not broken. It's the brick and mortar retail model that died on them. The loss of Macy's and Bon Ton--two major ad accounts that went poof--put a major dent in their revenue. Sears will be next to go. So this latest round of downsizing is in response to that reality--matching revenue with expense--rather than an outright decline in readership... Nearly half a million people (460,000) read the Buffalo News each day. That's down from 680,000 in 2008 but hardly "people don't read the paper anymore.' And that doesn't account for digital-only readership, which has likely risen over that period. https://www.statista.com/statistics/229549/readers-of-the-buffalo-news-bf-daily-edition/

So are communication skills...

Holy guardrail, Batman! Batmobile crashes on Buffalo highway http://buffalonews.com/2018/05/17/holy-guardrail-batman-batmobile-crashes-on-buffalo-highway/ With Podosek at the wheel of the Batmobile, and Yaskow following in a truck, they were nearing the Smith Street exit on the 190 north when the accident happened. Both agreed it was odd that Yaskow -- as Robin -- was at the wheel of the Batmobile, a scenario that never played out on the TV show. "What's interesting is that Jett insisted on driving today, which was a little weird," said Podosek, a North Buffalo resident, who plays the role of Batman in the duo. "We were just a few exits away from getting off at the Convention Center, too," he added.

The root of the problem... http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-american-adults-have-low-and-declining-reading-proficiency-20131008-story.html

That's his real personality, I believe, based on his old WBEN radio show days. The corporate shil he's become today is just a costume he wears...

http://www.tmz.com/2018/05/16/krista-glover-lucas-glover-911-pga-attack/

Makes me think back to the senior class prank when I graduated--somehow a VW bug got up on the roof of the school. Never did hear how that happened...

Link?

The Guild (union) contract locks that in, unfortunately. Buyouts or retirements are the only way to trim the deadwood. I expect to see a few on the sports desk in this latest round of cost cutting...

You must be fun at parties. That is, if anyone would invite you to one...

Russ Brandon lives!!!

Agreed on Zremski. He's top notch and actually too good for the Snooze, IMO. The other guys are just playing to the 'drunks on a barstool' / lowest common denominator contingent...

I hate both guys but one clarification. They're columnists, not reporters. Their job is to stir the pot, attract eyeballs (which they do, much like the hosts at 'GR) and generally get people talking about them. But like proverbial trees falling in the woods, if enough people stop reading/clicking their work product, they become boat anchors on the bottom line...

Ignored...

Tremaine Edmunds...

I check the five boxes...

He looked great when there was no pass rush pressure in the second half of that game. The fear is he'll revert back to 'hero ball' when he does face pressure, like he did at Wyoming last year. It's going to be the biggest thing to watch this summer...