That the Intelligencer Journal and the New Era needed to be merged was self evident several years ago. Nevertheless, Chair Jack Buckwalter and President “Chip” Miller continued to dawdle while advertising plunged and content suffered. (That is, when they weren’t disgracing the newspapers and our community by self serving propaganda and distortions concerning the Convention Center Project and vicious and unsubstantiated attacks on the former commissioners.)
Now the question is: Having merged the newspapers, will they have the guts to make the big cut in staffing needed to put the newspapers on a solid footing and have it over, once and done? Or will they continue to waste resources and create an atmosphere of terror at the newspapers as they gradually, ever so slowly, reduce staff and services?
We don’t know. But given Buckwalter’s and Miller’s deplorable records, we can guess!
