Graychin, Eucha (1/23/2009 8:32:58 AM)

Our beloved Will Rogers always made his remarks with a smile on his face. Does "Will Rodgers" sound like he's smiling this morning?

The Oklahoman will probably get the better of this deal. Its content has always been very thin soup, and it has been called (rightly) the worst daily newspaper in America. Its "news" stories are sometimes ethically challenged, promoting its owners' financial agendas. Its editorial policy and op-ed columns are somewhere to the right of... anyone I can imagine.

But times are tough in the newspaper business. This is probably a necessary step, and could theoretically benefit both papers.

Good luck to both Oklahoma dailies. We need you.

zzx375, BA (1/23/2009 9:04:56 AM)

"Both The Oklahoman and the World have terminated newsroom positions in the past four months as part of cost-cutting measures."

Ah, the real reason.

Eric, Tulsa (1/23/2009 10:38:39 AM)

"why would the oklahoman lower their standards to that of the TW"

With all due respect righton, your comment is back-@sswards.

The Oklahoman is not (IMHO) a newspaper but rather an editorial rag without principals.
Heck - we even used it in my journalism class as an example of what NOT to do, like, run editorials on the front page.

On the other hand, this joint venture is a necessary evil.
The demise of old media requires new partnerships.

And let's look on the bright side, shall we?
As some of you are fond of saying, the Tulsa World leans to the left and certainly, The Oklahoman is unabashingly far-right.

Fari and balanced!

;-)

jay123, Lancaster (1/23/2009 11:10:46 AM)

Maybe times are tough. But, why would a reasonably good newspaper enter into a sharing agreement with the "Daily Dissapointment," which has been called by the Columbia University School of Journalism, "The worse newspaper in America?" This move seriously diminishes the immage of the TW.

redbeard, Stillwater (1/23/2009 11:57:22 AM)

Huh....now when I pickup the TW, I can read the wingnut letters printed in the Daily Oklahoman.

Oh happy days.....

Ignatz, Broken Bow (1/23/2009 12:34:14 PM)

God help us all.

redbeard, Stillwater (1/23/2009 12:53:46 PM)

Cowboy,

What's wrong with bringing Ahmadinejad to the US and listening to what he has to say?

That doesn't mean we have to agree with his opinion or outlook on the Middle East. Maybe he'll learn something about us and us from him during his visit and both sides can benefit.

Ahmadinejad is not even the top dog in Iran and makes very few of the important decisions there.

Rocketman, Tulsa (1/23/2009 12:57:07 PM)

Oklahoma just became a little darker shade of red.

Mr. Brown, Tulsa (1/23/2009 12:59:53 PM)

Yes, maybe he'll realize that publically announcing his desire to destroy Israel
wasn't very nice, resign his post, and move to America to convert to Christianity with the fear of death. My sentiments, exactly!

tulsandn, Boswell / Tulsa (1/23/2009 1:06:36 PM)

The Tulsa World PLUS(+) the Daily Oklahoman still equals(=) ZERO(0) metro newspapers in Southeastern Oklahoma....

Some of you may call this a blessing, others may not, but at least you all have a choice to buy or not to buy....

I wonder what todays Hog Show updates are in the Hugo whatever-it's-called....

Arbythree, Tulsa (1/23/2009 2:20:52 PM)

My what strange bedfellows.

Sir Coris Markus, Armpit, USA (1/23/2009 2:25:23 PM)

What strange bedfellows indeed arby. kinda like strangefruit too. Geez. Anything to stay alive these days. Right. Hey, I'm hungry.. let's get a beef n cheddars and a couple of potato cakes for the kids sounds good. It's Friday. I'm not cooking.

Ray, (1/23/2009 2:56:38 PM)

Now they can layoff even more people because they can. The only good thing about this is that we might get a little bit of news about Western Oklahoma. The World and all three TV stations seem to stop all reporting of anything that happens west of Stroud.

redbeard, Stillwater (1/23/2009 4:00:28 PM)

No,Cowboy....I believe the conservatives already beat us to it with their trickle down economics theories and deregulation.

As for Iran....we have done much more damage to their country in the last 50 years than they will probably ever do to the US. Our support of Saddam Hussein in the 80's during the Iran-Iraq war killed a half a million Iranians.Isolating Iran is not going to change anything.

About Israel....we should build our foreign policy according to what benefits the US,not Israel.

Citizen M, Bartlesville (1/23/2009 4:38:16 PM)

I will be looking for the skull and cross-bones tag to be prominently displayed on the Daily Disappointment's articles. I'm not sure either newspaper should survive if the TW is going to allow itself to be polluted in such a way. I agree with Ignatz . . . God help us.

tulsan09, Tulsa (1/23/2009 4:52:26 PM)

Sure the TW could come up with a better plan than to include crap from the DO?

kyote, (1/23/2009 5:09:44 PM)

Maybe the Oklahoman will teach the TW how to print a paper without half pages in the classified section and how to do away with all the color in the classified section. I read stories online here that are never printed but the movie selections are printed twice. TW has no leadership.At least I got the web site for the oklahoman out of this article.

ExTribbie, Pueblo West, Colorado (1/23/2009 9:54:42 PM)

So if a World reporter goes to Oklahoma City to cover something and writes a story and it shows up in the Oklahoman, even though it's by a Tulsa reporter -- does that violate the time-space continuum, somehow? I'm so confused...

Tina08, (1/23/2009 11:58:11 PM)

great, left OKC, came to Tulsa, enjoying a little better newspaper...
The Daily Disappointment is a joke, its only a sounding board for the Gaylord family--soon we will have only one state newspaper with a red enforced one sided view...instead of reading the Oklahoma Observer at the Library I'm dropping this subscription and supporting them, a truly bipartisan paper demonstrating far better journalism. Am waiting to see where DelCour and Pearson wind up, they are far too good for this rag.

Fromtheright, Tulsa (1/24/2009 8:21:54 AM)

Hopefully this sharing agreement will water down the hard core leftist, Saint Kathy loving, reporting we are stuck with in the Tulsa World.

Tina08, (1/24/2009 10:10:17 AM)

The TW has no left wing commentaries...want left wing visit a local store and check out'Z' 'ISR' and other political magazines--well maybe not you'd be calling for a magazine and book ban to restrict freedom of the press

Sport, Edmond (1/24/2009 10:22:38 AM)

Both Oklahoma newspapers are right-wing, the Oklahoman more so than the World.

I stopped trusting the Oklahoman decades ago, its editorials random silliness or the too often recurring rape of truth and reality and its letters-to-the-editor a sidesplitting albeit sometimes scary trip into fantasyland (often more comical than the comics page). Now the World is climbing into bed with it. I’m in a dither.

For the World readers, however, there is an upside. They can now toss their sleeping pills into the trashcan. For those sleepless nights, the answer is an Ed Kelley (editor) video. Trust me, you’ll be awake at the end of it.

Sport, Edmond (1/24/2009 12:45:27 PM)

Oops! Make that "Trust me, you'll not be awake at the end of it."

Few Clothes, Austin, TX (1/24/2009 2:40:28 PM)

When I lived in Oklahoma both newspapers were equal. I used either for lining my bird cages.

FS, Broken Arrow (1/24/2009 9:47:24 PM)

The Tulsa World and the Daily Disappointment from OK City.

That should really be a source of some unbiased news - NOT!