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John Pritchett: Falling Star

The owner of Hawaii’s daily newspaper of record is putting it and other local print operations up for sale. Will another mainland publisher save the struggling publications?

By John Pritchett

January 21, 2024 · 1 min read

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John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

The owner of Hawaii’s daily newspaper of record is putting it and other local print operations up for sale. Will another mainland publisher save the struggling publications?

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About the Author

John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

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Star Advertiser is very dead at this point, the comment sections on their articles, and even some editorials they put out, often read like commentary from Twitter Blue subscribers-- and this was happening before the acquisition. So as a resident 30+ years-- yeah they've long since stopped representing us.

chunmeista · 2 years ago

"Print is dead."-- Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters.

MakakiloMan · 2 years ago

Look up in the sky, is it a crashing Boeing plane, a crashing comet, or the flame-out of the legacy media with its phony corporate rules-based facts that steered it so far off course over the years, disorientating its news consumers, that the legacy media eventually lost their support and confidence and is now in a free-fall? Or was it shot down by salvo after salvo of the technologically advanced independent Alternative Reality news-source missiles?

Joseppi · 2 years ago

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