Now that a train wreck in Sacramento over the California the budget has been more or less averted, it’s worth posing this question: Did the media cover the “structural” deficit underlying California’s budget? My sense is that for several years,…
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Newspapers Downward Spiral
The collapsing U.S. economy is coming at the worst time for newspapers struggling to survive. Consumers are likely to spend less, which will affect the retail sector, which in turn will cause businesses to further trim their advertising budgets. Newspaper…
A Lost Opportunity
Gov. Schwarzenegger has to take a good deal of the blame for for the trainwreck that resulted in his signing a budget two months after the date specified in the State Constitution. Had he supported Proposition 56 in 2004 –…
The Place to Be
During a dismal time in the news industry, the place to be last weekend was the Online News Association meetings in Washington D.C. It was probably one of the only gatherings of journalists these days with a genuine sense of…
Governor Goes to Fresno
In the middle of the California budget wars, where did Gov. Schwarzenegger head to? Fresno. One of his first stops was at the Editorial Board of the Fresno Bee. Jim Boren is the editorial page editor. He’s one of the…
