Except, perhaps, for those shivering dogs in the ASPCA commercials, there are few scenes sadder than a newspaper begging its readers for money to keep doing what it does. That was the gist of Editor Silas Lyons’ appeal in a… Continue Reading
April 27 – Midnight Sixty-two-year-old Nancy Briggs picks up her keys and pats the head of Pirate, her black-and-white dog, and tells him she’ll be back later. Pirate flops down on the floor and returns to sleep almost immediately. Briggs leaves her dozing… Continue Reading
Citing an economic downturn and overall declines in the newspaper industry, the Redding Record Searchlight on Thursday laid off 12 employees — about 8 percent of its 145-person work force. Click here to read more. This is how someone close… Continue Reading
I’ve moved on to a better place since I was fired from the Record Searchlight in October. I have a great, rapidly growing website. (Oh, oh, stay tuned for a Food for Thought surprise announcement Aug. 1. You’ll love it.)… Continue Reading
You’d think if the Record Searchlight wanted to cast a worldwide net for newsroom writers, it would start with an ad in its own paper. After all, the RS has ads in its classifieds for an RS forklift operator, RS ap/accounting clerk, RS contract home-delivery paper carriers,… Continue Reading
Sinking ship. That term wins the prize. It’s been used the most in the last year to describe the Record Searchlight’s continuous decline. I trace the beginning of the paper’s end to nearly one year ago after Silas Lyons replaced Kelly Brewer, a career journalist. What… Continue Reading
Credit today’s Food for Thought forums for bringing us this Chico News & Review story about Area 51  by Christy Lochrie. Dig a little deeper and you’ll notice she also wrote another piece for the same Chico paper about the protesters at Joshua Munns’… Continue Reading
Seven days since the local newspaper’s editor’s apology blog of the week. This time he replied to one reader’s e-mail that asked why last week’s entire Record Searchlight Sunday op/ed section was void of “citizen opinions.” The editor offered possible excuses for the saggy… Continue Reading
Free speech was alive and well in front of the Record Searchlight yesterday. More than 100 people (some estimates guessed as many as 140) gathered to protest what many believe is the paper’s mismanagement and rapid downward spiral. Some protested… Continue Reading
No, I won’t be marching, but many of my friends and loved ones will. Yes, Celeste is correct when she says I implore everyone to not paint the whole Record Searchlight with one rough, critical brush. I have scores of… Continue Reading
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