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This bit of news from the Texas Panhandle hit me like a punch in the gut. It comes from the company that owns the newspaper where my daily journalism career came to a screeching halt nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n

The Amarillo Globe-News is ending its daily page of opinion. It will run that form of community journalism<\/em> one day each week: Sunday only, man! I want to emphasize the term “community journalism” for a reason you’ll notice in just a moment as you finish reading this post.<\/p>\n

The newspaper announced it today. The statement includes this item: This comes as we make a more concerted effort to re-invest in local journalism, with the recent addition of a reporter dedicated to covering breaking news and trends along with agriculture and West Texas environmental issues.<\/em><\/p>\n

It wants to “re-invest in local journalism.” What that statement tells me is that dodo birds who run the newspaper place little “local journalism” value one editorials. That is a terrible shame.<\/p>\n

You see, there once was a time when communities relied on opinion pages to lead them, to provide some form of wisdom, to offer talking points, if not outright ideas for solving community issues.<\/p>\n

Those days appear to have been cast aside.<\/p>\n

Read the entire statement here: Amarillo Globe-News shifts to Sunday-only opinion section, re-invests in local news – Amarillo Globe-News (newsmemory.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

I wrote opinion pieces and edited opinion pages for the bulk of my 30-plus-year career in daily journalism. That is why this news hurts, why it cuts me to the quick.<\/p>\n

You can spare me the lecture about how “this is the national trend” and that “the Internet has changed everything.” Man, I know all that.<\/p>\n

There once was a time, not many years before I got reorganized out of my job as opinion page editor at the Globe-News, when I made a concerted effort to limit all of our editorial commentary to local and state affairs. That was our contribution to furthering the cause of community journalism to a region that still sought leadership from the newspaper.<\/p>\n

It now appears that people who did that job for the communities they served — as I did with great joy and commitment — have been placed on an endangered species list.<\/p>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n

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