#lacrossetribune — Public Fediverse posts

I will NOT click on headlines like this. This is the very definition of click-bait: "If you want to know whether this story affects you, you have to click on it first."

A proper headline would put the name of the affected city/state/county/etc as the FIRST WORD of the headline.

Never mind that the same headline appears in all #LeeEnterprises papers (at least all I've checked so far, including #LaCrosseTribune, #WisStateJournal, and #ChippewaHerald

This is NOT a sign of a reliable newspaper.

#NewsFail: If you read a Lee Enterprise paper (#LaCrosseTribune, #ChippewaHerald, #WisconsinStateJournal), you probably don't know that the #OrangeDipshit just got indicted... unless you really dig deep.

Not a word on the landing page of any of those papers.

Another Big Failure by Wisconsin newspapers.

A creamery in Portage had a huge fire, and a river of butter threatened to clog the Portage Canal.

Not a word in the #LaCrosseTribune, the #WisconsinStateJournal, or any of the other #LeeEnterprises papers. Why was The #Guardian the first outlet to tell us about this? #RiverOfButter #Wisconsin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/05/butter-wisconsin-dairy-plant-canal-melted

A data point in the death spiral of local news: #LaCrosseTribune said "we won't let you read this unless you turn off your ad blocker." So I turned it off and read the news. That worked for... a year, maybe?

Now they won't let me read anything, even with the ad blocker disabled. "Only if you pay." But why should I pay when 95%+ of the "content" comes from the mother ship in Madison.

Free stock advice: Short #LeeEnterprises. They're destroying themselves.