Want to know why the Orlando Sentinel is really flat-broke? It doesn't report the news. Not news that matters, anyway.
My first indication? The Obamastyle series that ran between mid-November and January 19th. It was interesting for the first week and a half, like an ongoing biography of a great American. But then it just got ridiculous. It became "Obama-Fashion" and "Travel-the-world-to-retrace-Obama's-childhood." That's 1)creepy and 2) mind-bogglingly unimportant.
Second sign: The "Caylee Anthony" tab under "News" but above "Buisness" on the navigation bar of the Sentinel website. C'mon people! That's tabloid stuff. The world financial system is falling apart but all we read about in the Sentinel is a psychotic hick.
Third sign: There's actually very little news content in that paper. Seriously, between the car ads, incoherent opinions, and the "National News" articles so trivial that they would barely qualify for the local section anywhere else, I think there's actually more news content in one issue of Orlando Weekly than in a weeks worth of the Sentinel.
And they wonder why people prefer the internet to get their news...
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