{"id":54444,"date":"2023-03-19T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54444"},"modified":"2023-03-19T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T22:01:31","slug":"canadian-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54444","title":{"rendered":"Great story on the fall of a media &#8216;giant&#8217;"},"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>The Texas Tribune has published a wonderful story about the pending demise of the Canadian Record, an award-winning weekly newspaper that has &#8220;suspended&#8221; its print editions &#8230; maybe only temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>Nic Garcia wrote the piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/03\/14\/texas-news-deserts-canadian-record-closing\/\">Texas news desert expands after Canadian Record stops publishing | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Record&#8217;s owner, Laurie Ezzell Brown, is trying to find a buyer. She admits to being weary of the grind and wants to spend time with her children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia alludes to the demise of many newspapers that serve rural communities. I would just add this mild critique, which is that he didn&#8217;t mention that the Texas Panhandle&#8217;s significant <em>urban<\/em> community &#8212; Amarillo &#8212; is suffering from the same lack of local news coverage as communities such as Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>Same for Lubbock further down the highway from Amarillo. And other larger cities as well.<\/p>\n<p>The era of printed newspapers is fading away &#8230; rapidly, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>It saddens this old newspaper hand terribly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>The Texas Tribune has published a wonderful story about the pending demise of the Canadian Record, an award-winning weekly newspaper that has &#8220;suspended&#8221; its print editions &#8230; maybe only temporarily. Nic Garcia wrote the piece. Texas news desert expands after Canadian Record stops publishing | The Texas Tribune The Record&#8217;s owner, Laurie Ezzell Brown, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great story on the fall of a media &#8216;giant&#8217;<\/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":[179,2293,2978,4728],"class_list":["post-54444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-agn-media","tag-internet","tag-media","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444","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=54444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54445,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444\/revisions\/54445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}