Lowell Sun sold as if 8/1

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

<snip> I saw nothing about the Lowell Sun story
> anywhere on TV and heard nothing about it on radio-- lots of people
losing
> their media jobs isn't news?  

Between WLLH and WCAP in Lowell, the Sun had an obvious approach:  There is
only WLLH.  Their columnist, Paul Sullivan (not to be confused with the
Herald's PS) is also the WLLH morning host.  Many Sun writers, etc., are
regular (all pro-bono) contributors to his show each week.  WLLH could
paint their lobby a new color and it would make it somewhere (other than
Sullivan's bi-weekly column, perhaps in Sunday's "The Column", a political
Who's Who) in the paper.  WCAP could break a story about a cure for the
common cold and be totally skipped by the paper.  It has always been
blatant that way.   

To their credit, the Sun did give some well-deserved copy to covering when
Joe Corcoran decided to depart WCAP after a ton of good years there as PD
and AM host.  But when WCAP Pres./owner Ike Cohen died, the paper barely
mentioned it aside from publishing my farewell tribute/Letter to the Editor
(thanks to Paul Sullivan for making sure it ran) - and Ike was a guy who
brought the station to town in '51 and then battled it out for ad dollars
in the market with the best of them for a long time.  

It is too bad that so many will lose jobs and/or pay levels (I have a
cousin who works there 30+ yrs) but as far as the paper getting coverage
for the recent business activities, I have a tough time getting sympathetic
as other media outlets yawn and look away this time.

Bill "I'm Not Bittah" O'Neill 

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