Ledger-Enquirer

It's depressing to watch how newspapers are reacting to the advertising slowdown. Some, like the Wall Street Journal have beefed up their reporting. The New York Times has a first class news web site.
Here in Columbus, it's a slow motion car wreck. The strategy the editors espoused was "more local all the time". Which might have been a workable strategy except they then fired their local reporters. I usually check the news on the web first thing and then read the newspaper. I find myself reading the same thing again-word for word. They're just picking it off the same place the web is getting it and expecting us to pay for it.
As bad as that is, even the local arts reporter, Sandra Okamoto, can't seem to find anything local to write about. The paper does a To Do section every Thursday and she has a column in it. Today, December 11, her whole column, 2/3 of a page, is about what's going on in Atlanta. There are 3 plays opening here, a symphony performance, an extraordinary new event at Westville and her idea is to go the museum in Atlanta.
There's a place for local print news and commentary. With television news reduced to car chases and anchor patter, we have no place to find out what's going on here. If I want to know what's going on in Atlanta I'll look at the Atlanta paper-on line.