I was looking at Twitter yesterday when popular columnist Paula Simons tweeted that this was not a happy day at the Journal and that she’d say more when she had something official.  We in the newsroom knew what that meant.  The Journal has had lay-offs in the past and it meant more were on the way.  We did not guess we would also be seeing the end of the Sunday Journal.  The same thing is happening in other places, with the loss of some of the writers who refer to themselves as “ink stained wretches.”  We told you last week about the Times Picayune in New Orleans.  After more than a century of being the newspaper of record, it’s cutting back to three days a week and losing reporters.  More and more, newspapers are trying to keep a presence on line, but some want you to pay to read.  They have varying levels of success, what with so many other information options.  It’s sad to see newspapers in decline, not only because in my youth I had a paper route, but because holding an iPad just doesn’t have the comfort of holding and folding a newspaper and smoothing it out to do the crossword on the table beside your toast.  Let me know what you think.

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