Oregon Media Insiders

I love print.

I like writing for newspapers, reading newspapers and being in the classic newspaper newsroom.

The more cuts I see -- with Gannett, Pamplin and the part-timers at the O -- I get more and more concerned of the direction our industry is taking. Where the job was tough, covering a beat and producing thoughtful articles, now is damn near impossible with covering more than one beat, writing articles as fast as you can and rarely ever taking the time to do the bigger stories.

We get press releases, we expand on press releases and we move on. We do event coverage, we cover the basics of civic budgets or policies without having the time to analyze what it all means.

I miss the old days, the 1990s, when we at least had staffing to do the job correctly. Now we get Brett Farve speeches about how his attitude will save journalism. How about how our newsroom staff has been cut 30 percent because we didn't break 20 percent profit margins.

It's a sad time to be in print.

Maybe it's time to find a new line of work...