Did the Enquirer test its own offices for mold? 

Honestly - I'm a bit surprised how far to the left side of the political spectrum WWE skews. I'm not sure, yet, what to make of it.

 

Liberal WWE fan here. The WWE fan base is actually a quite diverse group. Lots of black and Latino fans, and they have a strong fan base in the suburbs of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Baltimore--all places that lean left. It's also extremely popular in white working class neighborhoods with strong union membership like South Philly.

 

EDIT: Not to imply that South Philly is all white working class folks. It's very diverse, but there are a lot of white working class folks there, especially in places like Pennsport and Whitman where the old ECW Arena is located.

Honestly - I'm a bit surprised how far to the left side of the political spectrum WWE skews. I'm not sure, yet, what to make of it.

 

As an adult fan of WWE and professional wrestling, I often run into misconceptions of the average WWE fan. Most non-wrestling fan have a conception of wrestling fans as being Southern or Appalachian, white, uneducated, and poor. While this demographic certainly was instrumental in the development of wrestling, it's only a subset of the fanbase. Many Southern wrestling fans actually stopped watching wrestling altogether when the Atlanta based WCW (NWA) was bought out by New York/Connecticut based WWE (WWF) in 2001.

 

I cant find any good numbers to present here, but the general consensus is that WWE's viewers in America are more-or-less 1/3 white, 1/3 black, and 1/3 Hispanic, which means WWE probably has the most racially diverse viewership in America. WWE is also very popular in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and recently in India. They are using their success in India as a blueprint for China, with some early signs of success.

 

Non-WWE wrestling is also extremely popular in Japan and Mexico. The top promotions in those countries, New Japan Wrestling and Lucha Underground, have recently created an alliance with the US-based Ring of Honor to challenge WWE for global supremacy.

Non-WWE wrestling is also extremely popular in Japan and Mexico. The top promotions in those countries, New Japan Wrestling and Lucha Underground, have recently created an alliance with the US-based Ring of Honor to challenge WWE for global supremacy.

 

Lucha Underground is actually based in the US, but was initially targeted toward the Mexican-American market. Sorry for the mistake.

Hey, I said sports fans skew right. Not sure what the WWE has to do with that... :P

I don't want to get too off-topic, but you've hit a sore point, so this will be my last comment.

 

This article is a perfect encapsulation of how much the wrestling fanbase has changed, and how little the baby boomers that still run the WWE understand that.

https://deadspin.com/fans-chant-that-s-too-far-during-racist-wwe-promo-1818579727

I'm surprised that monster trucks is left of center.

Jason Williams is just a troll:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/columnists/politics-extra/2018/08/14/cincinnati-love-here-serena-williams-says-finally-positive-news/988486002/

 

Still complaining about the streetcar mold. 

Like I said. Total non-issue but will be a talking point on WLW and PX for years to come.

Enquirer apologizes for some sort of mis-reporting of an Ultimate Frisbee incident:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/2018/08/26/enquirer-updates-correction-policy-recommits-itself-accuracy-and-ethical-principles/1069696002/

 

Um, okay. 

Two sports guys doing the Cincinnati Enquirer's podcast, with predictable results:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2018/09/18/thats-so-cincinnati-ugly-poverty-numbers-and-city-hall-madness/1353222002/

This headline does not match the photo the Enquirer decided to provide for the article...

Awww, they're so cute when they're that little

Awww, they're so cute when they're that little

 

Looks like Fiona's got some competition

Jason Williams ranting on Twitter about how great Kasich was for pulling funding from the Uptown streetcar and giving it to the MLK interchange.

 

 

 

The streetcar funding went to Toledo and Sandusky for freight rail grade separations.  It was not simply shifted. 

It's all one big pool of money!

Jason Williams was sitting around watching Steven A and Skip Bayless when I was actually at the ODOT meeting in Columbus where the Kasich-packed TRAC reversed the commission's previous decision.

 

I watched, in person, the fire chiefs from Toledo and Wellington talk about teenagers getting hit at these grade crossings.  So if you were pro-streetcar, it meant you wanted teenagers to get hit by trains upstate. 

 

The Enquirer is milking the Kyle Plush tragedy for another go-round.  If he was black, we wouldn't still be hearing about him.  Remember that 4 year-old black girl who was mauled by the pit bull over in Western Hills two years ago?  How about an update on her?  Oh wait, nobody remembers her. 

Possible hedge fund takeover of The Enquirer's parent company:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/14/keep-hedge-fund-vultures-away-gannett/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b628dd8ca094

I am not convinced that the general public of Greater Cincinnati would be any worse off if Gannett was sold to new owners who shut the Enquirer down completely.

On 12/19/2018 at 12:45 AM, jmecklenborg said:

The Enquirer is milking the Kyle Plush tragedy for another go-round.  If he was black, we wouldn't still be hearing about him.  Remember that 4 year-old black girl who was mauled by the pit bull over in Western Hills two years ago?  How about an update on her?  Oh wait, nobody remembers her. 

 

 

He could be the new Matt Maupin.

^Yeah, a guy I was in the band with in high school (I was his section leader!) was killed in Iraq in 2005.  No highway for him.  He was an amazingly goofy guy as a freshman and was still a work-in-progress when I graduated.  Then I ran into him on the street in 2003 or 2004.  He recognized me right away but he was completely transformed by the Marines. 

 

https://thefallen.militarytimes.com/marine-lance-cpl-michael-j-cifuentes/1013318

The Enquirer is returning to broadsheet format. 

^That's because the Columbus Dispatch printing plant is closing. Enquirers were printed in Columbus starting in the early 2010s I think. Now Dispatches will be printed in Indianapolis and trucked in. Dunno where Enquirers will be printed.

They will be printed in Louisville, I'm guessing from the Courier-Journal's plant?

The Enquirer online articles now require an account to view ANY article.  You will still be unable to see subscriber articles unless you've signed up for that service.  I usually viewed the site daily to catch any articles that were not subscriber articles.  This is no longer an option moving forward.  I realize newspapers across the country have to figure out how to survive, but is this the answer?   Any other thoughts?

17 hours ago, richNcincy said:

The Enquirer online articles now require an account to view ANY article.  You will still be unable to see subscriber articles unless you've signed up for that service.

 

I'm assuming this is so they can still impose an article limit on those of us who use private mode browsing (and constantly reset the cookie).

Unless things have changed since, back when I subscribed I found it frustrating that Gannett treated the various papers as independent websites/subscriptions. I live in Granville so the Granville Sentinel/Newark Advocate is my local (Gannett) paper. If I want to keep up on metro news I'm also paying for the Dispatch. If I want to keep up on news from back home, I'm paying for the Enquirer too. 

There isn't a lot of local content in any of the papers, most of which is at least a day behind local TV stations and rarely any more detailed. Their websites are filled with tons of overlapping regional content, along with USA Today fluff which together make it hard to find anything unique or interesting in any one publication. It easier finding relevant local stories posted to their Facebook feeds, it bothers me to no end too say that.

I want to support newspaper journalism (having worked at a newspaper many years back), but it isn't worth paying for three subscriptions (or really even one). That's further emphasized by a pricing model right up there with a cable company. It's impossible to tell what it will actually cost to subscribe after a few months, and you have to call to cancel. 

For years, I have been unable to view any article on the Enquirer's website, as it always says that I've exceeded the free article limit, even if I used a new web browser/cleared cookies/used Incognito mode. I assume this is because I share an IP address with everyone else in my building and they're doing some kind of IP address checking in addition to cookie checking.

 

I probably haven't said this in awhile so I will repeat for anyone who is unaware, the Cincinnati Business Courier does very good coverage of urban development, transportation, local politics, and other issues that are likely of interest to UrbanOhio readers. They beefed up their coverage of these topics several years ago in response to other local outlets (e.g. the Enquirer) doing a generally poor job of covering them. So if you are considering subscribing to any local paper, I'd highly recommend the Business Courier. I know some people have figured out a way to access the Business Courier's paywalled articles using their Cincinnati Public Library credentials, so you may want to look into that if the $135/year digital subscription fee is too much for you.

I second Travis' comment. The Business Courier is well worth the money. Between politics and local development it covers almost everything I need. And I'm not supporting Jason Williams' clickbait opinion pieces.

 

I'm also a subscriber to WVXU, whose journalists are great at live tweeting local political meetings. Subscribing doesn't get you more content, but they do a great job. And I subscribe to the Cincinnati Edition podcast, which i listen to about 30-40% of depending on the topic they're discussing.

 

For national news you can pick your favorite, but $1 per week is easily affordable for the intro rate at NYT. I'm sure you can get a similar deal at a Washington Post or whoever you like the most.

WCPO has also been fairly good, especially on urban development and transportation/complete streets issues; however they recently did away with their WCPO Insider product and their most prominent reporter for these types of stories left, so I guess we will have to wait and see how well they cover these topics going forward.

Here's the link to the library's newspaper section. It notably lacks a subscription to the Enquirer, but includes access to the Business Courier and the New York Times (which I just use for recipes):

 

https://cincinnatilibrary.org/resources-types/newspaper/

 

I haven't stepped foot into the library in awhile, but I imagine you can still go there and read the daily Enquirer print edition - so I'm not sure why they haven't worked out an online account for library cardholders yet. Especially given how much the library tax went up with their last levy increase.

26 minutes ago, Ram23 said:

Here's the link to the library's newspaper section. It notably lacks a subscription to the Enquirer, but includes access to the Business Courier and the New York Times (which I just use for recipes):

 

https://cincinnatilibrary.org/resources-types/newspaper/

 

I haven't stepped foot into the library in awhile, but I imagine you can still go there and read the daily Enquirer print edition - so I'm not sure why they haven't worked out an online account for library cardholders yet. Especially given how much the library tax went up with their last levy increase.

 

The Enquirer is accessible through the Library's site, with articles shown in simple text form (not a reproduction of the Enquirer's website). 

 

You can find the link on this page: https://cincinnatilibrary.org/magazines-newspapers/

 

 

4 hours ago, taestell said:

For years, I have been unable to view any article on the Enquirer's website, as it always says that I've exceeded the free article limit, even if I used a new web browser/cleared cookies/used Incognito mode. I assume this is because I share an IP address with everyone else in my building and they're doing some kind of IP address checking in addition to cookie checking.

For the past year I've used the pi-hole program on a remote and home VPS.  When on the go, my phone automatically connects to my remote VPS via a VPN using wireguard for DNS ad-blocking.  Only the DNS queries are sent via the VPN, the rest of the traffic does not, which keeps your connection fast and latency low.  This is the only way I've been able to continue to see enquirer articles.  The only time this does not apply is when I use a work computer, which is how I noticed they were requiring an account just to view articles. 

 

I've also tried the library account method for viewing Courier Journal articles. 

I did not realize the Enquirer had left the building with their name on it.

 

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The Cincinnati Enquirer is still without an office after leaving 312 Elm St.

 

The city's last remaining (almost) daily newspaper has been without a newsroom or offices since moving out of the 312 Elm Street office tower Downtown in December, when its 30-year lease expired.

 

Reporters and editors had expected to move one block west to 312 Plum Street, but a lease apparently has not been finalized with the landlord and Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain.

 

Without a newsroom, a staff meeting for some journalists was held last week in a meeting room at the Walnut Hills branch of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.

 

^It's sad to see. 

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/

 

Gannett papers have experienced a 77.2% decline in paid subscribers since 2018. 

I canceled my (hometown) Enquirer and (where I live now) Newark Advocate digital subscriptions a few years back. I was tired of paying two subscriptions for the same USA Today and other national content in both places, very little local news in either. There are MUCH better sources for paid national news.

 

Even my boomer in-laws gave up on their Enquirer subscription last year - "there just isn't anything in it".

Death by a thousand cuts

30 minutes ago, mrCharlie said:

Even my boomer in-laws gave up on their Enquirer subscription last year - "there just isn't anything in it".

 

 

The quarterly Clifton neighborhood paper has more in it than The Enquirer.  The last edition had a pretty interesting blurb on a Clifton resident being one of the first ten people to summit Mt. Everest in the 1950s.  

 

The Enquirer plods along with two longtime reporters - Jason Williams and Sharon Coolidge, each of whom are dumber than any person I encountered working at my college newspaper.  Both of them are easily manipulated by the city's sharks.  

WVXU and Cincinnati Business Courier are infinitely better local news sources than the Enquirer.