{"id":28748,"date":"2021-08-03T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28748"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:42:14","slug":"alienating-readers-a-badge-of-honor-at-the-daily-dammit-gannett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/03\/alienating-readers-a-badge-of-honor-at-the-daily-dammit-gannett\/","title":{"rendered":"Alienating Readers A Badge of Honor At The Daily Dammit, Gannett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/response.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;article,&#8221; for paying subscribers, is entitled &#8220;Young reporter threatened; columnist told that his head is up his #*@&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man, we know what the readers are responding to: The hype stories from <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/31\/too-polite-to-call-opposition-liars-but-not-for-long\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the new kid<\/a> and that the closest thing that the paper has to a local columnist has been writing political diatribes knocking people skeptical of the Recurrent Unpleasantness instead of explaining what&#8217;s being built on such and such corner and what&#8217;s the story about that one thing we pass on our daily commute.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how much the article, for subscribers only, will reinforce a certain block of subscribers and how much the article will lead to cancelled or lapsed subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>I expect both, but for the Daily Dammit, Gannett to continue to shrink in size and subscriber base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;article,&#8221; for paying subscribers, is entitled &#8220;Young reporter threatened; columnist told that his head is up his #*@&#8221;. C&#8217;mon, man, we know what the readers are responding to: The hype stories from the new kid and that the closest thing that the paper has to a local columnist has been writing political diatribes knocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28749,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions\/28749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}