Inquirer ME Mike Leary just sent a memo saying they are going to hold all but breaking news for the paper and even restrict bloggers from using their blogs to work on stories in progress.Let me make this very clear to Inquirer ownership and management:You are killing the paper. You might as well just burn the place down. You’re setting a match to it. This is insane. Even the slowest, most curmudgeonly, most backward in your dying, suffering industry would not be this stupid anymore. They know that the internet is the present and the future and the paper is the past. Protecting the past is no strategy for the future. It is suicide. It is murder. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Wow, how did I miss this post? I need to fine tune my Goggle Alerts. I got this info from www.sarahlacy.com via email and was floored! Don't blog about the news until it goes to print first? Soo even when every major news media company podcasts and blogs breaking news, the Inquirer wants to hold it's teddy bear tight? Even with the New York Times displaying on their banner "Latest Update 6:52 pm EDT" (It's currenlty 7:06pm EDT) you want to suck your thumb instead and refuse to embrace the internet? I still shake my head when I see the guy in the middle of the street trying to sale newspapers. As everyone else gets "Green" and tighten their belt, the first thing they'll cut will be tree killing newspapers. Talk about dissolving a job position...

Philly dot com has a new e-magazine feel. It looks likes a very interactive site now with comments and rss enabled. I can't remember the old design but I'm sure it wasn't like this! Looks like Philebrity has some competition...

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