MMMM # 478 Worst of the year? And the death of the obit writer.

     The Hollywood Reporter branded CNN's Don Lemon among the worst  journalists of the year for a series of gaffes. They also named the Rolling Stone rape story debacle, not exactly the company to which Lemon wants to be connected.

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These are vanishing too...fewer and fewer newspaper boxes.

    The Montgomery Advertiser distributed the last USA Weekend Magazine on Sunday, a pitiful little thing, all of 16 pages. There were even fewer, 12, in the previous Sunday's magazine.
     It was created to give papers a way to compete with the grandaddy of those inserts...Parade.
     Did it do the job? Parade claims a distribution of 32 Million and a readership of 54 Million, while USA Weekend claimed a circulation of 22 Million with 48 Million Readers. And now they have zero circulation.

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  The weekend's On The Media show on public radio focused on "Beat" reporting...reporters assigned to cover one area of news. Like crime. Or City Hall. It is an old system of news coverage, and one that is dying. Speaking of, even the death "beat"...the obituary writer...is becoming a thing of the past. When I worked for WJLK Radio in Asbury Park New Jersey, the obits were read on-air every day. We joked that some people listed to see if they had passed the night before.

[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular, long-standing feature of TimLennox.com]