Comments on: Guest Editorial: Clive Leeman

By: Al

Al — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:51:02 +0000

Maybe the part of the paper that pays the bills was not doing so well? Demitri’s accounting of the situation stated that advertisers were disillusioned with the way the paper was being run. Maybe that had something to do with it. Just a SWAG.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:27:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Clive. I’ve been a subscriber to the OVN for many years, and liked what Bret did with the paper. I’ve wondered if there are legal reasons for the way they’ve done this, but maybe not, since the LA Times seems to talk about their hirings and firings. I’ve only seen one short letter to the editor about it; I can’t imagine that that’s the only one that has been submitted. The silence is deafening.

By: Suza

Suza — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:46:15 +0000

THANK YOU, Clive Leeman, for expressing what many longtime Ojai Valley News readers are thinking. We appreciate having our own small town paper and want it to succeed. And we welcome the new editor and want him to thrive. But we wonder what happened and we want the OVN to show respect for the transition from the old to the new.

By: mk

mk — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:34:20 +0000

I may be completely out of my element here.
And I must first admit that I do not read the OVN on any regular basis.
I may pick it up occasionally if it is at the coffee shop.
But can what happened recently at the OVN be fully understood without understanding the changing landscape of newspapers in general, where they are almost becoming a “relic” given the internet.
While the Ojai Post is quite light on any real “news”, I turn to it first to get “oriented” to the community.
If the OVN were free on the internet, I probably would read it regularly.