It’s official. The Journal Star has announced that the deal is closed and they are part of the Gatehouse Media family of newspapers. Also announced was that Ken Mauser is the publisher of the Journal Star (he had been interim publisher since December 2006).
So, you can take down the “Save the Journal Star” website and yard signs now.
Let’s all let Gatehouse know that they need to clean house at PJS.
And Mouse, surely you’ll be kind enough to tell JS workers the name of your employer, so they can likewise instruct your boss to “clean house”?
I think it’s really low to purposely hope people get fired, whether you agree with their opinions or not. Media people are people — they have children, mortgages, etc., too.
Jodee has a point. I don’t want to see anyone get fired (the people I really didn’t like retired already anyway). But I would like to see a little more even-handedness in news coverage of certain things (like the Kellar Branch and District 150, for example). I believe those are editorial decisions.
Jodee, funny you are suddenly concerned with PJS jobs. PJS doesn’t give a hoot about the families of Carver Lumber employees. PJS doesn’t mind splattering some rather flimsy accusations about “resume exaggerations” against one school board member on the front page (she has a family too, you know), while apparently covering for others (didn’t say the degree stuff – that is of a different caliber). I could go on, but the point is the PJS plays hardball with those they don’t like, and now we are supposed to give them a pass on all their bad acts because they have mortgages? For starters, they haven’t given any indication of remorse. I’d have to see a commitment to turning things around. Not their opinion, they can have that, but where it appears. It needs to stay on the editorial page, and out of the news and off the front page. They would get “fired” by the reading public if we had an alternative. They survive because they have no effective competition in the newspaper business.