The Demise Of The Buffalo News

[Usually Right]

THE DEMISE OF THE BUFFALO NEWS OR THE BUFFALO NEWS HAS CHOSEN THEIR FINAL ALBATROSS

After reading today’s (3/16/06) article on the front page of the BUFFALO NEWS, it is quite evident that the NEWS has chosen Dr. Satish Mohan, Supervisor of the Town of Amherst, as its final ideologue to sink or swim with; their last being E.C. Executive Joel Giambra.

With both readership and advertising inches decreasing, the NEWS is taking a last stand to increase its circulation by the overt support of the Amherst Supervisor in keeping up a barrage of articles about the Supervisor.

What the NEWS is doing is picking up the same chant that the Supervisor has used from the beginning; everyone is against me because I rock the boat. However, the NEWS didn’t list any of his accomplishments in the article because he doesn’t have any. His first 100 days are coming up; lets publish all the accomplishments! (Matter of fact, that reminds me, where is that 100 days of accomplishments that Billy OH! Promised us?)

The BUFFALO NEWS supported Joel Giambra in the same exact way 6 years ago and it helped increase the circulation. Giambra was the fair-haired boy then; he could do no wrong. The circulation went up as well as advertising (and of course the prices). However, the NEWS chose a horse that caused a lot of trouble but had some very “good ideas that should be tested”.

Now after 18 months of political terror, the NEWS still hasn’t said Giambra was a wrong choice, but you just have look to see what he has done almost single handily to the county.

Now we are seeing the Mohan propaganda blitz in full action. First the printing of one article every day, then every couple of days, then once a week; either editorial, columns or letters, and now finally publishing a front page white wash that sugar coats almost all the Supervisors mistakes and makes it sound like he is being picked on all the time by a disgruntled minority.

If you have followed the NEWS editorials and policies over the past 50 or so years, you have to put some of the blame on the NEWS for part of the deterioration of Buffalo and Erie County. What has happened in Buffalo is now going to happen in the suburbs and the NEWS will have to share in the blame game.

Why? Because the NEWS is going to try to run the Town of Amherst through it’s paper like it tried to run the City and the County. The AMHERST BEE at one time thought they could do the same thing. However, they were smarter. First they stopped doing political endorsements of candidates and then they hired reporters to objectively write their stories. The AMHERST RECORD was a short-lived (no great loss, think of the trees that will be saved) piece of yellow journalism whose integrity could be bought for the price of an ad or an inside (so called) scoop or even by “dating” their reporter.

In the next 4 years, you will find the BUFFALO NEWS reduced to the loftiness of a community newspaper. By then, most of the readers will be reading E news because of their lack of credibility. The BUFFALO NEWS has become a joke!

[Gandalf]

Sad but true!

[amherstfirst]

The Buffalo News has gone overboard in reporting so much about Dr. Mohan's greatness. What they failed to report was that he has yet to accomplish any savings for the Town. He is talking only about increases in spending. Buying garbage totes for two million dollars, adding to the costs of engineering projects and even buying an old church that needs millions in renovations. He is adding costs. I would like to see what he is planning on doing between now and October to cut the promised ten million dollars from the Town Budget. I just don't see it happening but there is never any mention of any of this in the Buffalo News. He has even hired someone from a temp agency for a secretary rather than using the excess employees he always talks about.

[NoCtUrNaL]

The BUFFALO NEWS has become a joke!

Does that mean you're no longer going to read it? I mean, what would be the point right, it's a joke of paper.

[Usually Right]

Nocturnal,

I hesitated writing this thread because I thought I was alone in my feelings. Glad to know I'm not spitting in the wind.

For the past 2 years, I have cut my delivery of the BFLO NEWS from 7 days a week to 4.

I like the Sunday edition for the national news and the International news. The B/N gets that from the wire services. My wife likes the coupons from Sunday.

I will probably only get the Sunday paper by summer; have been using E news for about 3 years.

IF I WANT TO READ FANTASY, I READ BOOKS. AT LEAST I KNOW IT IS FANTASY.

TO STAY UP TO DATE ON THE TOWN, I WATCH ALL THE BOARD MEETINGS AND READ THE BEE.

BEST OF ALL, I TALK POLITICS WITH THE PEOPLE OF AMHERST AND NOT OUTSIDERS WHO ARE EITHER JEALOUS OR WANNABES!

[WNYresident]

BEST OF ALL, I TALK POLITICS WITH THE PEOPLE OF AMHERST AND NOT OUTSIDERS WHO ARE EITHER JEALOUS OR WANNABES!

Wannabes? Wannabes of what? And jealous of what?

[Usually Right]

That doesn't even deserve answer, but I guess this is an answer

[Joe Buff]

Say what you will about the BUFFALO NEWS; it's no worse than most, and even better than some. I have lived in a number of different places--even other countries--over the years. One thing most people have in common is that they complain about their local newspapers. The only place I didn't find that to be particularly true was in New York City (with the exception of the STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE, and many New Yorkers don't consider S.I. to be a real part of the City).

We get the Sunday BUFFALO NEWS, mainly for the ads and the comics, as well as for the weekly TV listings; and sometimes we get the Saturday edition just for the hell of it. When we have out-of-town visitors in for a weekend, we find the Friday edition helpful with the listings they have in Gusto.

For news, we depend on radio, TV, and the Internet; and we do a lot of extrapolating and reading between the lines to try and discover what's really going on out there. Having been involved in a number of news stories in the past, it always amazed me how distorted the reporting on them almost always turned out to be. I started realizing somewhere back in the 60s that, if events I had first-hand familiarity with became so unrecognizable in the media (printed and electronic alike) that I grew to distrust reports on stories I knew nothing about. That's why I try to have as many input sources as possible. My wife and I enjoy jigsaw puzzles.

It's all part of the series of games we play. Round and round and round....

[Usually Right]

Staten Island ... what can I say that you haven't thought already. The "CITY" is Manhattan!

I agree with you about the papers. It is the times we live in. Too bad it isn't the TIMES.