Tim Cuprisin one of many MJ/S employees taking voluntary retirement

[CrewDood]

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/tvradio/

 

I read some of his stuff fairly regularly.

Any suggestions where to find similar info after he is tailights?

[sargennm]

I'm guessing your best chance at getting that info will be following him via twitter, etc. I'm fairly confident the JS won't replace him.

[CrewDood]

My inference was that maybe one of the other papers in the state worth its salt may have someone who does the similar...

[Eileen Wright]

It just seemed to me that he always just copied articles that you can find on any major site from the day before. I never learned anything new from him at all. I always was admittedly jealous of his job. It seemed like one of the easiest in the world.

[Eileen Wright]

Wow, I just read that Dave Tianen took the buyout as well! I always thought of his job as one of the coolest in Milwaukee, not to mention pretty easy.

 

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/07/27/daily29.html

[CrewDood]

It just seemed to me that he always just copied articles that you can find on any major site from the day before. I never learned anything new from him at all. I always was admittedly jealous of his job. It seemed like one of the easiest in the world.

OK....fill me in on a site.

But, Eileen, did you learn anything from Dave Tianen?

He just gave his opinion on concerts if I got this guy correct

[Eileen Wright]

It just seemed to me that he always just copied articles that you can find on any major site from the day before. I never learned anything new from him at all. I always was admittedly jealous of his job. It seemed like one of the easiest in the world.

OK....fill me in on a site.

But, Eileen, did you learn anything from Dave Tianen?

He just gave his opinion on concerts if I got this guy correct

 

Yahoo.com, ew.com, pollstar.com, usatoday.com, variety.com, billboard.com to name a few. There have been many days where I saw some entertainment news in the USA Today and Tim Cuprisin would have it in his article the next day. Pretty easy money if you ask me. I was honest when I stated that I was jealous of his job.

Plus you can Google or Wikipedia anything you need to find out about a certain show, actor, actress, rating, etc.

If you read my post, I never said I learned anything from Dave Tianen. You are implying things here. I said that I thought his job was one of the coolest in Milwaukee and an easy one. I did always like to read his reviews of concerts that I went to and compare what he thought of it to what I thought of it. I also would like to read his reviews of concerts that I didn't go to that I was interested in. I was always jealous of his job too.

[CrewDood]

I was just asking, honestly, if you learned something from Dave because you stated you never learned anything from Cuprisin.

That is all.

Nothing else.

[JimH5]

The shrinking of the Journal Sentinel staff is depressing to me. I think there's still room in the world for newspapers with a strong local connection.

 

The problem is, all of their national and international content is avaiilable online 24/7, that there's no need for them to print up day-old AP stories.

 

If they behaved like a true local community newspaper, I think there would be a market for that.

[drezdn]

Tim Cuprisin was worth following, even if only for his videos from the Journal Sentinel "weather deck"

[hawing]

The shrinking of the Journal Sentinel staff is depressing to me. I think there's still room in the world for newspapers with a strong local connection.

 

The problem is, all of their national and international content is available online 24/7, that there's no need for them to print up day-old AP stories.

I probably shouldn't get started on what bothers me about newspapers nowadays (because I might not stop). Last fall, when I picked up the Journal Sentinels with special postseason coverage, I found myself actually surprised that the MJS still had local content, and then sad to have that be a surprise.

The Wisconsin State Journal is fast becoming little besides AP stories, advertising flyers, and Badger/Packer coverage.

[homer]

onmilwaukee.com has ok entertainment reporting.

[endaround]

I wouldn't be surprised to see either Tianen or Cuspirin turn up at onmilwaukee

[BrewCrewForever]

I was also a Cuprisin reader. As someone who got a degree in broadcasting and was in radio for awhile and still aspires to, he was the guy to read for radio business news around Milwaukee. Also enjoyed his TV writing.

[RobertR]

I probably shouldn't get started on what bothers me about newspapers nowadays (because I might not stop). Last fall, when I picked up the Journal Sentinels with special postseason coverage, I found myself actually surprised that the MJS still had local content, and then sad to have that be a surprise.

The Wisconsin State Journal is fast becoming little besides AP stories, advertising flyers, and Badger/Packer coverage.

Yeah where to begin?

 

The only thing the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has to offer that I can't find on the internet is stong local angles and columnists. The late Dennis Getto was more important to my reading the paper than reprinting some AP story. And that seems to be the first thing they cut.

 

The ever shrinking comics page is another thing I'll take issue with. Go find a comic geek friend with a glorious copy of DC's Wednesday Comics and compare to what you get in the paper, even on Sunday. They've shrunk it to the point where it's practically unreadable. Go clear out the deadwood and blow up the strips that they do reprint to a size where you can appreciate the work and you might have something. Heck, equating Doonesbury to Mallard Fillmore (which is neither written well or drawn well and shows no ability to take advantage of sequential storytelling) and then chickening out and dropping both is symptomatic of being spineless and directionless.

 

I'll grant the JS that their Packer coverage is good. There's really no other state equivalent to their coverage of the Brewers, warts and all. Jim Stingl does a good job too. As well as Spivak and Bice. But, overall, it's a paper lacking an identity and strong tie to the community.

 

Robert