Got a great plug from fellow blogger Bernie O'Hare yesterday. Thanks for the traffic, Bernie! Check out his Lehigh Valley Ramblings site for more Morning Call/Tribune news and updates.

Judging from the comments, The Morning Call is in a downward spiral. I knew that when I took the buyout, but I didn't think it would end quite this fast.  The paper has suffered from bad management for nearly two decades—I don't think it will survive for another. 

The Lehigh Valley needs and deserves a good, solid news-reporting paper-of-record, but let's face it—The Morning Call ain't it. The paper is not even a shadow of what it once was—it's gone beyond that into the dark nether realms where newspapers go to die. If the future of newspapers wasn't so dim, I would suggest that all the "downsized" workers band together and start a new paper, but alas, that is just a pipedream. Oh, well. . .