Friday, February 29, 2008

Shoulda Been a Used-Car Salesman

And the implosion of traditional journalism continues. In the space of eight hours Feb. 29, I watched the company I've worked for for umpteen years split itself into four pieces, and then learned that my old alma mater, The Albuquerque Tribune, stopped publishing on Feb. 23. The lights go out, one by one....

3 comments:

Ruth said...

Big changes.

Not quite on the same scale, but I was grieving the end of Polaroids.

Don said...

Hey curmudgeon! John Schneider of the Lansing State Journal has an essay in Sunday's paper that talks about his curmudgeonness.

Loring Wirbel said...

Took a look at it, thanks - I saw he wasn't sure whether to treat it as a compliment or not. When I'm feeling surrounded by iPods and iPhones and Britney stories, I love to pretend I'm in a rocking chair, waving my cane and shouting, "Go away, I'm just old and grumpy." But my dad turns 80 this week, so he's the real curmudgeon.