Brand X Letter Writer Claims SR Shut CDA Office …

… Which isn’t true, but doesn’t mention CDA Press is closing Post Falls office.

If Ms. Tarnasky likes the Spokesman-Review so much, she is probably in an ever-declining population. The SR raised its Sunday paper price, cut the physical size of its paper, fired one quarter of its news staff and moved out of the relatively new building it occupied on Northwest Boulevard. It has stated publicly that it has to cut costs. It would appear that Ms. Tarnasky’s ideal newspaper is not doing well. Could it be that the readership is unhappy with that paper and showing that unhappiness by not buying it/ Bob Hunt , Post Falls. More here .

DFO: CDA Press apologist Bob Hunt is right that the SR is going through hard times. But he isn’t correct that we’ve shut our office on Northwest Boulevard nor do we have plans to do so. Brand X editors know that. So I’d guess that the decision to allow the inaccurate info to appear in the letters section was intentional. I also notice that Brand X hasn’t mentioned that it is closing its Post Falls office, assigning one reporter to work from home and reassigning another to the Coeur d’Alene flagship. That isn’t a move a paper in good shape, no matter what Brand X’s Sunday editorial said about the strength of community newspapers.