Yesterday the Detroit Free Press announced that come next year, the paper will be delivered to home subscribers only three days a week (Thursday, Friday, and Sunday). This, according to the self-congratulatory praise to failure that is editor Paul Anger's piece in today's paper, is the answer to the "crushing business realities" that are currently afflicting the newspaper business in general and the Free Press in particular.While Mr. Anger promises that the paper will devote more resources to "up-to-the-minute reporting" and other exciting content, this is merely window dressing on the real reasons for the decline in the newspaper business, reasons that publishers and editors stubbornly refuse to confront. Newspapers love to promote themselves as the guardians of accountability, yet the Free Press continues to employ and prominently feature Mitch Albom, who fabricated a story (including the dateline) out of whole cloth and was rewarded with a paid...(Read Full Post)