Opinion/Ted Cohen/Patch.com
Chop chop biz biz oh what a disaster it is.
Oh wait, that's supposed to be plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is - the old Alka-Seltzer TV commercial.
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Actually to try to figure out what the state's largest paper is up to now in fact requires a couple of Alka-Seltzers to relieve your stomach acid.
To witness how the editors have chopped up the Sunday papers - Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal and Waterville Sentinel - killing certain local sections and replacing some with pages from the Maine Sunday Telegram is a nightmare to behold.
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Really weird. No doubt local readers in central Maine and Lewiston aren't happy at all getting Portland news and opinion while losing some of their own sections.
The explanation for the remakes offered by the Maine Trust for Local News, the so-called non-profit conglomerate that bought the state's largest paper and several other dailies in 2023, is quite the PR spin.
In fact it strains credulity.
But they've butchered the local Sunday papers across Maine to try to salvage an embattled newspaper company.
The Portland paper seems unchanged but undoubtedly will soon feature more Lewiston and central-Maine content going forward because surely readers It means largest city to the south certainly care about Skowhegan planning board news.
Can't make it up folks.
Any editors on duty?
