{"id":32366,"date":"2018-09-17T01:09:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32366"},"modified":"2018-09-17T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T01:10:01","slug":"theyve-made-the-move-to-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32366","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ve made the move to the tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AGN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32287\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AGN-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AGN-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AGN.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I was a day, maybe two, late in assessing the future of the Amarillo Globe-News.<\/p>\n<p>I conjectured that a move was upcoming. Then I saw a story today on Page 1 of the Globe-News. They&#8217;ve made the move. It&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper, a longstanding institution in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, now is tucked on an upper floor of the FirstBank Southwest Tower in downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a sad move. It saddens me terribly that the newspaper that once was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism excellence will no longer be visible to onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the future holds for daily journalism in Amarillo. The trend doesn&#8217;t portend a bright future. The paper has slashed its staff; it has cut it resources; it has scaled back its presence; it prints the daily editions in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>Does it cover the news with the depth and breadth it once did? No. Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>But now the Globe-News is ensconced in a skyscraper with a <em>bank&#8217;s<\/em> name on it! The paper&#8217;s long-standing office at Ninth and Harrison has gone dark.<\/p>\n<p>Dammit!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2018\/09\/the-media-hits-just-keep-comin\/<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I was a day, maybe two, late in assessing the future of the Amarillo Globe-News. I conjectured that a move was upcoming. Then I saw a story today on Page 1 of the Globe-News. They&#8217;ve made the move. It&#8217;s done. The newspaper, a longstanding institution in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, now is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They&#8217;ve made the move to the tower<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[179,2587],"class_list":["post-32366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-agn-media","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32369,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions\/32369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}