The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest circulation newspaper, announced that it will cease print publication in February 2025, devolving into another understaffed, poorly written and unedited website. Steve Alessi, president of the paper’s owners, NJ Advance Media, said: “this is a forward-looking decision that allows us to invest more deeply than ever in our journalism and in serving our communities.” I will keep my opinion of Mr. Alessi and his statement to myself. Much of the Star-Ledger’s staff will be fired, and smaller newspapers the Times of Trenton, the South Jersey Times, and the Hunterdon County Democrat will also go online-only (until they are inevitably closed down). I know, I know, it’s “progress” and unavoidable, but as a former newspaper and magazine writer/editor—who grew up reading the Philadelphia Bulletin—it makes me turtle-stompin’ mad.
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Just horrible! Our country is devolving into the most illiterate third-world country! Growing up in the Bronx, I had the privilege (when I was old enough) of reading so many different newspapers, until the dailies dropped down to 3--my favorite, "The Daily News", my next favorite, "The New York Post" (of course, when Dorothy Schiff still ran it!), and finally, the cumbersome "New York Times". I still remember learning in school the correct way to fold "The Times". When you have moronic fiends like Jeff Bezos and Steve Alessi, who obviously have no business running newspapers, it just proves how uninformed the future generation will be.