A newspaper in free-fall

One more gone, and this time it was the publisher.

Sent back down to the minors - a smaller six-day (no Saturday paper) daily in the Texas panhandle. Checking the paper's website, it appears that news writing is not their strong suit.

During his tenure, he drove out nearly all of the talented people in the building. Some were fired on a whim because it became embarrassingly obvious that they saw through the publisher's bluster and incompetence. Happily, everyone who left is now better off for getting out.

Unfortunately, the damage has been done and the door has been opened for the start-up paper in town to triumph - something that would have been unthinkable a year ago.