Robb Montgomery

Advertising plunge will kill newspapers and there won’t be a bailout.
That’s the headline of a blogger and former journalist I really admire, Kiyoshi Martinez.

Kiyoshi is a reformed newspaper and online journalist who now works as Illinois Senate Republicans Staffer for the State of Illinois.
In addition to his blog, Martinez also created the popular sites for laid off journalists at AngryJournalist.com and Journalism.me.

I would have responded in comments to his blog - but I am not a fan of Wordpress comment registration. There are tools I like better to manage comments on the WP platform, but I digress.

The point is that instead of commenting directly, I responded to his essay by using my Twitter feed.

At first promoting his topic for my followers to notice by linking to it.

And then I followed up with a few more tweets in rapid fire, stream-of-conscious logic.

And then . . .

Which begs the question every U.S. journalist should have for the CEOs and boards that operate their companies in the U.S.

So thanks, Kiyoshi. Your post got me thinking about the issue in a new light and in spite of the 140 character limit of a Twitter SMS - I was able to craft a response in chunks.

What are your thoughts and tweets?

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