Mrs Guardman and I have had a little daily ritual of reading the CJ every morning together for the last 21 years, while drinking coffee and having a muffin or toast. Used to take us 20-30 minutes (15-20 years ago). Now it typically takes about 2-5 minutes. Mrs Guardman has defended her right to 'read' a real paper newspaper for a long time, but now she is exasperated by its lack of ANYTHING. Even she concedes now that it has no substance remaining. It gives her little pleasure.Two day old 'information' combined with daily UofL hit/smear pieces and traditional thumping of Christian religion and anyone who practices it, plus large doses of hate spread heavily over conservatives and business and especially Republicans. Weekly doses of Ricky Jones racist, white-hate rants.
The CJ does extraordinarily weak reporting on city/state budgets, school budgets, in-depth pension issues, business and economic development, travel/tourism, etc -- instead focusing on social/pity-issues like drug addiction, poverty, violence, racism, free choice, UofL hate, guns, 'poor' healthcare, equality and fairness, to name a few.
Mrs Guardman is an Independent and she is sickened by the heavily distorted, one-way, views of the CJ in particular and also especially of its parent Gannett.
Thank Heaven I receive the WSJ every day, typically reading through 3 of its 4 sections pretty completely. It is about 8-10 times as thick as the CJ, and contains very few ads. So it has about 150 times as much real news and content. Even a full page of sports.
The WSJ is quite conservative in its 3 pages of op-ed views/outlooks, but it rarely smacks Liberals, Progressives and Socialists head-on. About 20-25 pages of the WSJ are dedicated to true news reporting, unbiased. I would say on a good day the CJ has 2-3 pages of true news reporting MAX, plus abt 3-6 pages of 'sports'. Both news and sports reporting in the CJ are terrible quality.
This turned out to be a big-time CJ rant, but the total demise of what was once a pretty good newspaper is tragic. The CJ is no longer relevant.