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Star-ledger print edition will stop printing and closing its Montville production facility in 2025.

I always liked the Tony Soprano scenes getting the paper in his driveway. Sunday sports section in the fall was a treat - nfl previews , college football results , high school football results , MLB , and a column by izenberg. That was years ago and I am sure hasn’t been the same

Will politi call Julie Herman for a comment ??

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Star-Ledger ending print edition and closing production facility in 2025

NJ Advance Media says it will continue to invest in local journalism and cutting-edge technologies.
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Sad.
I've been buying the Ledger since the Sixties. Although for the last few years only the Sunday edition. The Bergen Record is gonna be a weak substitution.
 
I used to read the newspaper every day. Stopped my subscription to The Record about 10 years ago when it seemed to be no longer a good read & became a chore to catch up due to work. Gave up on the Star Ledger probably 10+ years prior when it went downhill. Every house in my neighborhood used to get the paper. Maybe one now. Times change.
 
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Section124 said:
I used to read the newspaper every day. Stopped my subscription to The Record about 10 years ago when it seemed to be no longer a good read & became a chore to catch up due to work. Gave up on the Star Ledger probably 10+ years prior when it went downhill. Every house in my neighborhood used to get the paper. Maybe one now. Times change.
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The local paper for Monmouth County, The Asbury Park Press, is worthless. Local reporting has all but disappeared. Stories on fires and emergency services are taken from Facebook posts of the local fire departments and rescue squads. The only useful feature is perhaps high school sports reporting.
 
Knight Shift said:
The local paper for Monmouth County, The Asbury Park Press, is worthless. Local reporting has all but disappeared. Stories on fires and emergency services are taken from Facebook posts of the local fire departments and rescue squads. The only useful feature is perhaps high school sports reporting.
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Same with The Record...only good thing is the high school sports as well. I think they are the same company and share content.
 
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Section124 said:
I used to read the newspaper every day. Stopped my subscription to The Record about 10 years ago when it seemed to be no longer a good read & became a chore to catch up due to work. Gave up on the Star Ledger probably 10+ years prior when it went downhill. Every house in my neighborhood used to get the paper. Maybe one now. Times change.
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The Record became useless when they got bought out and local reporting all but disappeared. The SL, though I don't think they got bought out, followed the same path. Sports reporting beyond scores suffered from a Woodward and Bernstein fetish by the reporters. Rising costs certainly took a toll, but they brought a lot of this on themselves.
 
knightfan7 said:
You may not like this or that outlet but NJ's major news source shutting down print editions isn't a positive move.
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No, it's not. Particularly for local news. But I repeat, this is at least partly brought on by themselves. Going back, I remember when Vinni Di Trani covered the Giants for The Record. I've seen nothing of that caliber by either paper recently.
 
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What is Tim Pernetti going to use to blow his nose with now?

Decades ago, when I was single, getting a large cup of coffee and a Sunday Star Ledger, then reading it out on the balcony (spring-summer-fall) was my Sunday morning ritual. Used to have a daily subscription once we had a home, but discontinued that in the early 2000's, still got a Sunday edition though. But I stopped reading and subscribing to it after the Mulcahy hatchet job. Haven't bought one in about a decade.

mildone said:
Job half done. Now get rid of their website and the world will be a better place.
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Working on it!
 
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Very sad. I stopped subscribing to the Ledger years ago. However, I enjoyed my many years of reading the morning Ledger.

There was no bigger RU sports homer than the late Joe Calabrese. I loved his enthusiam. I also enjoyed Tom Luicci's sports articles. Tom was a little schizophrenic in his reporting about RU sports. On some ocasions, he vigoriously promoted RU sports while on other ocasions, he was its fiercist critic.
 
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Kbee3 said:
Please take off the tin foil hat.
And maybe splash some cold water on your face.
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It’s not really paranoid to point out that the media is far less concerned about journalistic ethics and objective reporting and far more interested in selling ads and profit these days. The only thing wrong with his post is claiming it’s only part of the media when it’s all of the media.

So my question stands: what media is actually objective these days? I’ve been unable to find a single objective reporting source anywhere. I don’t think they exist anymore.
 
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batts said:
Very sad. I stopped subscribing to the Ledger years ago. However, I enjoyed my many years of reading the morning Ledger.

There was no bigger RU sports homer than the late Joe Calabrese. I loved his enthusiam. I also enjoyed Tom Luicci's sports articles. Tom was a little schizophrenic in his reporting about RU sports. On some ocasions, he vigoriously promoted RU sports while on other ocasions, he was its fiercist critic.
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That’s because as alum, he wanted it as bad as we did. And acted like it sometimes. The difference is we didn’t have the pen or the megaphone.

And you’re right about Joe Calabrese. That was a nice man.
 
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mildone said:
It’s not really paranoid to point out that the media is far less concerned about journalistic ethics and objective reporting and far more interested in selling ads and profit these days. The only thing wrong with his post is claiming it’s only part of the media when it’s all of the media.

So my question stands: what media is actually objective these days? I’ve been unable to find a single objective reporting source anywhere. I don’t think they exist anymore.
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There is no objective TV media on either side. Reporting seems to have gone out the window. TV media is just columnists talking instead of writing in a newspaper. I'll admit I don't watch the local TV news outlets much but they probably constitute the most objective reporting on television.
As for the SL, like Spanky, I canceled my subscription after the hit job on Mulcahy. Interestingly, one of the writers of the hit job was in my office and he would not even entertain my thoughts on his article, especially the "secret" Schiano article on his contract that they themselves reported in the paper a year prior to calling it a "secret" contract. Total a**holes.
 
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Plum Street said:
Star-ledger print edition will stop printing and closing its Montville production facility in 2025.

I always liked the Tony Soprano scenes getting the paper in his driveway. Sunday sports section in the fall was a treat - nfl previews , college football results , high school football results , MLB , and a column by izenberg. That was years ago and I am sure hasn’t been the same

Will politi call Julie Herman for a comment ??

www.nj.com

Star-Ledger ending print edition and closing production facility in 2025

NJ Advance Media says it will continue to invest in local journalism and cutting-edge technologies.
www.nj.com www.nj.com
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Gee, that's too bad. Guess the dogshit and garbage has to be wrapped in another paper.
 
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RUTGERS95 said:
couldn't happen to a better bunch of people
terrible paper; un-apologetically biased and far from the bastion of accurate reporting
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Judging by your signature, you are as biased as anyone on this message board! Also, how about the people who work in the production department? They are not necessarily biased and stand to lose their jobs.
 
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Does the Messenger Gazette still print every Thursday?
I remember where their office was in Somerville.
 
BossNJ said:
Clearly, one that agrees with “me”.
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You get credit for being honest. Most people point to the other side and claim only the other side's media is biased.

I can no longer locate an unbiased media source which is disappointing and troubling. Everybody is just slurping up whatever nonsensical propaganda they’re being fed.

I think it's impossible to overstate the dangerousness of this situation in our country right now.
 
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ScarletNut said:
There is no objective TV media on either side. Reporting seems to have gone out the window. TV media is just columnists talking instead of writing in a newspaper. I'll admit I don't watch the local TV news outlets much but they probably constitute the most objective reporting on television.
As for the SL, like Spanky, I canceled my subscription after the hit job on Mulcahy. Interestingly, one of the writers of the hit job was in my office and he would not even entertain my thoughts on his article, especially the "secret" Schiano article on his contract that they themselves reported in the paper a year prior to calling it a "secret" contract. Total a**holes.
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Yup.

I was just thinking that I feel bad for the good men and women who work at the SL. They've been let down repeatedly by very poor leadership and now they're the ones who will suffer by being out of work.
 
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LotusAggressor said:
One that has a viewpoint he agrees with.
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Pretty sure that's the correct answer. But it's not just him and not just one side of the political spectrum. I think all media has become complicit and that everybody is being heavily manipulated instead of being objectively informed.

I genuinely don't see any good way to be well-informed about current events anymore. We all have to wade through a sea of disinformation and misinformation and try to piece together something resembling reality.
 
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Section124 said:
Same with The Record...only good thing is the high school sports as well. I think they are the same company and share content.
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They are the same and are owned by Gannett. Almost all of the non local content comes from the USA today and the AP. Local articles seem to be replicated in both papers......Here is a list of all Gannett Print Media.

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I have no use for the star liar, but feel sad in a way how local newspapers are gong out of business or dropping their newsprint and just putting out online editions.
Even though the Ledger is part of a large news corporation, it was the local newspaper devoted to New Jersey and the NYC metro area
 
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ScarletNut said:
There is no objective TV media on either side. Reporting seems to have gone out the window. TV media is just columnists talking instead of writing in a newspaper. I'll admit I don't watch the local TV news outlets much but they probably constitute the most objective reporting on television.
As for the SL, like Spanky, I canceled my subscription after the hit job on Mulcahy. Interestingly, one of the writers of the hit job was in my office and he would not even entertain my thoughts on his article, especially the "secret" Schiano article on his contract that they themselves reported in the paper a year prior to calling it a "secret" contract. Total a**holes.
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one of the guys in my gun club was an executive there and the place drove him mad with the bias, group think and hit jobs. He said that the paper is following the political landscape of the state in it's move further left which obviously permeates through the entire entity.

journalism appears dead or at the very least, we're right back to the yellow journalism days
 
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mildone said:
You get credit for being honest. Most people point to the other side and claim only the other side's media is biased.

I can no longer locate an unbiased media source which is disappointing and troubling. Everybody is just slurping up whatever nonsensical propaganda their being fed.

I think it's impossible to overstate the dangerousness of this situation in our country right now.
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No source is totally unbiased, but there are degrees. And degrees within the same source. Editorial and op ed pages, by their definition, are biased. You know it up front so I have no problem with it. But does it bleed into the front page? And the best source for front page reporting with little to no bias is the WSJ. And it's acknowledged by people with widely different points of view.
 
Plum Street said:
Star-ledger print edition will stop printing and closing its Montville production facility in 2025.

I always liked the Tony Soprano scenes getting the paper in his driveway. Sunday sports section in the fall was a treat - nfl previews , college football results , high school football results , MLB , and a column by izenberg. That was years ago and I am sure hasn’t been the same

Will politi call Julie Herman for a comment ??

www.nj.com

Star-Ledger ending print edition and closing production facility in 2025

NJ Advance Media says it will continue to invest in local journalism and cutting-edge technologies.
www.nj.com www.nj.com
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Love it...im going to email Julie tonight. She was right!
 
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mdk01 said:
No source is totally unbiased, but there are degrees. And degrees within the same source. Editorial and op ed pages, by their definition, are biased. You know it up front so I have no problem with it. But does it bleed into the front page? And the best source for front page reporting with little to no bias is the WSJ. And it's acknowledged by people with widely different points of view.
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bingo
Mildone get's that and most people with a pulse understand this
 
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