The McClatchy Co. is purchasing Knight Ridder, our parent company. This is good news. The Eagle also isn’t among the 12 Knight Ridder newspapers that McClatchy intends to resell — really good news. McClatchy, which owns such papers as the Minneapolis (Minn.) Star Tribune and the Sacramento Bee, has a reputation for caring about journalism and local communities, not just about making money. It believes that good journalism is good business.
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Congratulations.
Time for a serious revamping.
Fight what Sacbee did, online readers have to sign up for content.
Cut and paste the link in the browser on that site and Washington Post gets to the story, but to me its irritating. I don’t read content sign up news websites if the cut and paste technigue doesn’t work. Sometimes it works at the Miami Herald.
Will the Eagle lose some recognizable feathers? I like the idea of a local owner or in state ownership. It’s always up to the Editor right and not the ownership what slanted content makes the news.
It’s a fresh start and somethings should change. Change has to happen in Wichita, its been this way for too long.
I thought it sounded good too. The Sacramento Bee has a good reputation, and The Eagle has been profitable, so there’s no reason to cut it loose.
Now if we could just get some balance on the op-ed page. Cal Thomas twice a week is just too much . . . unless you run HELEN THOMAS right next to him.
Better yet, more Molly Ivins!!
The Eagle does a great job covering local news….just ask ‘em :-)
This is VERY good news, and not just for the Eagle. A viable buyer and a viable approach to newspaper ownership; our democracy demands nothing less than a fully free press, and McClatchy seems committed to this proposition.
I wonder if the eagle online or weblog will change.
Get rid of Mallard Fillmore and cal Thomas.
Less sports and more science news might be good too.
Phillip has good things to say about the new owners.
Good move, lol!
Star Tribune and Sac Bee.
I guess the lefties here will feel right at home.
Makes me wonder if the new owners know about the mechanical press problems at the Eagle? The ones that result in delayed delivery 4 or 5 times a month? Try caling the delivery line at 6:30 and hear the recording, “due to mechanical problems, delivery is delayed…”
I cancelled my home delivery because of continuing delivery problems..missed papers, delayed, or soaked on a regular basis.
I’m not for sure if the Eagle is unionized, but I heard on NPR that McClatchy would like to dump any that is.
But judging from the report that the Eagle is not part of the re-sell of the 12, then that’s good news.
There is people that call it the Wichita Beagle (Eagle), because it was a dog of a paper.
I just read the news online on Kansas.com
Hogwash PhilThey have a reputation of being even lefter that you Eaglets. So you are safe for now — at least until the public gets sick of the far left.
Wow! Another non-issue!!!
The Eagle was leftist?
I am leftist. The Eagle seemed like a right wing rag to me.
The decline of newspaper joournalism is well documented, and the Eagle is a typical example. I have little reason to believe that the Eagle will change its course and return to the tradition of public service journalism.
I read yesterday in the NY Times, I think, that McClatchy will buy and invest in newspapers that are the sole paper for a medium sized market. The WE seems to fit that bill.
It is my sense that other media in Wichita rely a great deal on the local reporting of the Eagle. I believe that there would be a noticeable reduction in the quality of local news reporting (from all outlets) if the Eagle had been sold to “cut and burn” cost-cutting compnay.
Leftist Rag? I worked in The Eagle newsroom back when Britt Brown, who was somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, was the publisher and it hasn’t moved leftward all that much since then.
I hope that the amount of local news increases with the new ownership of the paper. There is so much in the world to report on that I am somewhat dismayed to see that the paper does not have as much news in it as years past. My paper has shrunk in size, and not just because of layout and typeset.
I agree with CF on wanting more science, and more international news could only be a good thing.Good luck to all of the current employees of the Eagle. I know that change is hard for many people, but it is a constant fact in this crazy world we live in so you might as well make the best of it. Think positive!
Newspapers have become only one of a number of venues for news these days. They should concentrate on local news, and issues that require more than a sound bite to understand, since those are the weaknesses of TV and internet news services.