Welcome to the new www.MarylandOnMyMind.com A PATCH OF WHITE ICE on the coastal bay west of Ocean City, last Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. This photo of the ice, with a part of the OC skyline in the background, was taken from the west end of a street in North Ocean City. And Welcome to Winter,… [Read more…]
December 31, 2009
Remember Y2K? Can that possibly have been 10 years ago? An entire decade? Today we are on the cusp of Y2KX, 2010, another new decade. Where were you, and what were you doing, on New Year’s Eve, 1999? It was the end of a millennium, and everywhere there was trepidation and anticipation. I was working… [Read more…]
December 30, 2009
We’ve reached the bitter end of the first decade of the new century. It’s also the end of the line for Editor & Publisher, trade journal of the newspaper industry in North America, and its sister publication, Kirkus Reviews, a leading book industry journal. Nielson Business Media announced in December that it is closing Editor… [Read more…]
October 13, 2009
The amazing implosion of the MSM (that’s mainstream media) continues. The Washington Post unveiled a new, dumbed-down version of its Sunday magazine a couple of weeks ago. More ads, less content. Don’t these newspaper guys get it? Don’t they understand that every redesign speeds up the downward death spiral. Last Sunday, The Post magazine featured… [Read more…]
March 14, 2009
The Washington Post confirmed this morning that it will fold its stand-alone business section into the newspaper’s A section, which includes the national and international news, six days a week. The paper will continue to have a separate business section on Sundays. It is ironic that one of America’s top newspapers is forced to reduce… [Read more…]
January 6, 2009
This just in. The New York Times, which used to be called the “gray lady” of newspapers, yesterday ran a colorful banner advertisement for CBS across the bottom of Page 1. Even The Times is not immune to the hard business realities facing what’s left of the newspaper industry. I guess this means I can… [Read more…]
December 30, 2008
Adam Pagnucco over at Maryland Politics Watch is gathering input to compile a list of the top ten Maryland news stories for 2008, and the top ten Montgomery County stories. He will be publishing the results in a few days. Here are Maryland On My Mind’s nominations for the top Maryland news stories of 2008:… [Read more…]
December 18, 2008
The Detroit Free Press will become the first major metro daily newspaper in the U.S. to reduce home delivery from seven-days-a-week to three days. The Free Press and the Detroit News will cut back home delivery to only the three most lucrative days of the week: Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The historic change will take… [Read more…]
December 9, 2008
One year ago this month, Sam Zell piled $8.2 billion in new debt on The Tribune Co. and took the newspaper chain private. That back-breaking debt has now forced Tribune to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Tribune owns eight major daily newspapers (including The Baltimore Sun and its suburban weeklies), 23 TV stations, WGN… [Read more…]
October 20, 2008
It is hard to accept that The Baltimore Sun has come out in support of slot machines in Maryland. The Sun editorial page has been strongly and consistently opposed to slots, like . . . forever. The Sun has published at least 75 editorials against slots over the past 10 years. Now, with the slots… [Read more…]
January 10, 2010
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