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    The Demise Of The Buffalo News

    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!

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    Sad but true!

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Usually Right
    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.

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    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!

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    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?

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

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    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....

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Usually Right
    Staten Island ... what can I say that you haven't thought already. The "CITY" is Manhattan!
    Depends on your point of view. To anyone living in the 5 burroughs, the "City" IS Manhattan. To those living a bit out in the suburbs (and who never actually lived in the "City") the perspective can be a little wider. Some would include The Bronx, and maybe even Queens and/or Brooklyn in the mix. Just about no one anywhere, even on Staten Island, would include Staten Island! Legally and politically, the City of New York includes all five burroughs (the counties of The Bronx, New York, Kings, Queens, and Richmond). How did I ever live in such a confusing area? Western New York is so relatively simple to figure out, right?

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    I did my last visit to Staten Island on the last day of the 5 cent fare. Wish I could remember the name of the pizzeria I was taken too. "Interesting" owner; Tony Soprano type, really.

    Any ways, back to the thread. (We are allowed to deviate.)

    E news will be broader and more immediate. It will cause the closing of more than just the BFLO NEWS except the NEWS will close faster because of the control it thinks it can exert. One would think that the NEWS would try to pique peoples curiosity to ask questions instead of trying to sell their bull**** agendas!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Usually Right
    I did my last visit to Staten Island on the last day of the 5 cent fare. Wish I could remember the name of the pizzeria I was taken too. "Interesting" owner; Tony Soprano type, really.

    Any ways, back to the thread. (We are allowed to deviate.)

    E news will be broader and more immediate. It will cause the closing of more than just the BFLO NEWS except the NEWS will close faster because of the control it thinks it can exert. One would think that the NEWS would try to pique peoples curiosity to ask questions instead of trying to sell their bull**** agendas!
    To deviate first: there are a lot of Soprano types on S.I. The ferry is now free for pedestrians (the fare was eliminated in 1997); vehicles still pay a fee.

    To the point: I don't think newspapers will soon disappear. They may become more and more irrelevant and depend more on their frills than on their hard news for their survival, but there is a certain comfort factor in holding onto that hunk of newsprint over a morning coffee or while straphanging in the subway. And, for all their complaining about higher costs and lower revenues, newspapers are still among the most profitable businesses in America.

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    The SNOOZE is anti-union, vehemently anti-municipal union, anti-casino, somewhat anti-Democratic Party, and anti-suburban, especially anti-Amherst, and that bias shows up not just on the editorial pages and in op-ed pieces but in the news stories it choses to print, how the stories are written, and especially in the headlines for those stories. Sometimes the headlines are contradicted by the actual stories.

    The SNOOZE has a long tradition of being politically biased, but its quality has really declined since the Courier-Express shut down. It was a big loss for the community.
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    Thanks Linda, Just add yours to all the other dissatisfied customers. Joe Buf ha s a good handle on it also.

    Just imagine if they really printed the truth, how much greater the readership would be.

    CH2 picked up its ratings and so did CH4 because of their in depth reporting of the County Leg shenanigans.

    The NEWS could do the same, but that would mean other thinkers might get their way instead of the all knowing NEWS.

    Other people are feeling the same way today because the NEWS was the topic of conversation downtown today at lunch and I didn't bring it up. I sure added to it though!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Usually Right
    Thanks Linda, Just add yours to all the other dissatisfied customers. Joe Buf ha s a good handle on it also.

    Just imagine if they really printed the truth, how much greater the readership would be.

    CH2 picked up its ratings and so did CH4 because of their in depth reporting of the County Leg shenanigans.

    The NEWS could do the same, but that would mean other thinkers might get their way instead of the all knowing NEWS.

    Other people are feeling the same way today because the NEWS was the topic of conversation downtown today at lunch and I didn't bring it up. I sure added to it though!
    "Truth" can sometimes be in the eye of the beholder, but gee, if you run a headline that reads "XYZ Indicted" then maybe the story ought to be about XYZ being indicted, not that "some people" or "some opponents" think XYZ should or is likely to be indicted. That's what the SNOOZE does.
    Your right to buy a military weapon without hindrance, delay or training cannot trump Daniel Barden’s right to see his eighth birthday. -- Jim Himes

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