"MLSE Execs Feel The Pain Too, Fans"

[jloome]

^ In this case I think you also have to take into account the newspaper's inability to read the mood of the readers. Sports fans in Toronto are pretty much past the point of appreciating, "saying something without saying it." We're looking for someone - anyone - to start actually saying something.

I'd like to tell you it's going to get better before it gets worse, but that wouldn't be true.

But for a variety of reasons, it will eventually get better. We're in a couple of different social cycles right now -- including a vein of anti-intellectualism reacting, incorrectly, to the dissolution of our political orthodoxies. The state of the news industry, and corporate North America, both relate directly to that.

[Mark in Ottawa]

The only time these assholes feel the pain is when their sides ache from laughing at us.....

So True.

The folks who must really be hurting at ML$E have gotta be the poor schmows who get to call up season ticket holders to talk renewals and the like. Talk about a thankless job!

[Shakes McQueen]

I'd like to tell you it's going to get better before it gets worse, but that wouldn't be true.

But for a variety of reasons, it will eventually get better. We're in a couple of different social cycles right now -- including a vein of anti-intellectualism reacting, incorrectly, to the dissolution of our political orthodoxies. The state of the news industry, and corporate North America, both relate directly to that.

The advent of the 24 hour news cycle has also been disastrous to public discourse. When you've got 24 hours to fill, suddenly the minor becomes the major, and ginned up storylines replace the actual facts of a matter.

- Scott