While most newspapers are blaming the Internet for destroying print journalism, one local paper is embracing the future and expanding its audience. The Morning Journal, which serves northern Ohio (from Lorain), is breaking news first on its webpage and mobile phone apps, supplementing with social media, and then backing it up with the print edition. Editor Tom Skoch writes:

HERE we are, a decade into the 21st century. The “future” is now. And never has the future of local news looked so good to this newspaper guy.

For The Morning Journal’s readers, that means getting the news sooner than ever, in more dimensions, and in new ways that best suit their needs.

It also means engaging readers in a continuing conversation that brings them into the news process.

The Morning Journal and other newspapers like us in the Journal Register Company family are, collectively, becoming one of the most-watched news outfit in the nation.

That is because under JRC’s new CEO John Paton we are rapidly evolving from being a “newspaper company” to being a “media company.” That means taking a quantum leap off the one-dimensional surface of the printed page to bring you the news more quickly and in more dimensions than ever….

Even if you don’t live in their local area, these are journalists worth getting to know, just for their approach to information delivery.

Newspaper website — The Morning Journal

Their Facebook page — MJ

Tom Skoch on Twitter — newspaperguy

The next time you hear the WaPo or the New York Times caterwauling about declining readership, dear readers, you don’t have to feel sorry for them.

Formerly a reporter in New Jersey, Bob Scherer is now blogging for the LoudounTimes, a suburban newspaper in Northern Virginia. But his eye on politics is national in scope. Here are three recent posts to consider:

Unpresidential Obama shows unhealthy attitude toward Americans:

The so-called health care summit achieved nothing but further demonstrated this about President Obama: He underestimates Americans. He overestimates himself. He is not presidential.

As he strutted, hands in pockets, from the White House to the Blair House, Obama yelled to reporters he was going there “to listen.” He’s a talkative listener. Obama spoke for a total of 119 minutes; the 17 Republicans combined spoke for a total of 110 minutes….

We all have stories about supervisors who might be intelligent (Obama is) and might be well-spoken (Obama is), but who have little faith in their subordinates, outsized egos, and the need to supervise and get the credit for everything. They embody the Peter Principle. They are not effective leaders. In the end, they are inefficient, and not particularly competent. This is our president….

Does record snowfall prove humans are causing the earth to cool?:

Eastern Loudoun County got nearly four feet of snow last week. That brings this winter’s snow total to about six feet, far more than we’ve gotten the past five winters combined.

It also brings us more amusement from some environmentalists. For years we’ve been told the D.C. region’s mild winters were caused by global warming.

“Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled,” lamented Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a speech 17 months ago blaming man for the lack of snow. He’s probably wrong about sled ownership too.

More grins: A planned global warming protest in D.C. was cancelled Monday due to heavy snow, forcing hundreds of shivering activists back into the energy-fueled warmth of their homes and hotels….

The sticking accelerator pedal in Congress is far worse than Toyota’s:

If my Toyota truck suddenly accelerates out of control on Route 7 it won’t be because of a sticking pedal.

It’ll be my reflexive reaction to hearing yet another radio broadcast that one of America’s worst-run organizations – Congress – is still scolding one of the world’s best-run organizations – Toyota….

Toyota has been one of the most reputable car companies in the world for decades. It builds innovative, high quality, durable, reliable, affordable cars and trucks. Unlike Government Motors (GM), Toyota didn’t need to be bailed out and taken over by the federal government. Unlike the federal government, Toyota doesn’t irresponsibly spend more money than it takes in – much less trillions more. And because Toyota seeks to outperform its competition, it’ll correct this mistake, restore its image and resume its success.

And what about Congress: Does it have a good reputation? Does it learn from its mistakes? Is it responsible managing the hard-earned money it receives from taxpayers? Does it focus its time trying to solve big problems, like runaway deficit-spending and the future of social security, and not wasting its time meddling in the business of well-run companies? No. No. No. No….

Dear readers, you might want to bookmark this guy!

The unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood were sitting ducks. The armed citizens of Israel are not. A very relevant article posted on the blog China Confidential makes the comparison:

Israelis Baffled by News of Defenseless US Soldiers

Many Israelis want to know: why didn’t the soldiers attacked by a U.S. Army major-turned-terrorist return fire?

When a Muslim goes, well, Muslim in Israel he is typically shot to death by someone–say, a reserve soldier–within seconds of screaming “Allah Akbar.”

In contrast with the Israeli experience, it took 10 minutes before a civilian police officer at Fort Hood was able to shoot and stop Muslim fanatic Nidal Malik Hasan.

How could that happen? How could so many people trained in the strategies and tactics of modern warfare be so defenseless?

The answer–and this may astonish many Americans–is that the victims were unarmed. U.S. soldiers are not allowed to carry guns for personal protection, even on a 340-acre base quartering more than 50,000 troops.

So it goes in brain-dead, liberal America….

Israelis, who have had to combat terrorism all their lives, are not afraid of guns. They are an armed people, ready, willing, and able to defend themselves and their country.

Unlike indoctrinated Americans, paralyzed by fear and political correctness, Israelis understand that people, not guns, kill people….

Several other websites copied this material without attribution, presenting the material as their own work. Whether done through dishonesty or simply ignorance, this is a practice that we here at American Daughter abhor.

Now this excellent post is making the rounds via viral email, and all credit to the original author is missing. For those of our readers who have not seen it, we urge you to visit the website China Confidential and read the whole piece.

Parts of your body may be harvested without your consent, even while you are still alive. That is the plan of Barack Obama’s “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein to solve the problem of getting enough human organs to meet the need for transplants.

A fellow blogger has written an outstanding article on this looming danger. We urge our readers to visit Jolly Rogers and read

Body Parts

As we contemplate Obama’s destruction of our country, sometimes it helps to laugh. Visit Truth & Consequences and check out the clever picture that Jim Simpson posted:

Just Another Guy in the Neighborhood

We found a new blogger who has posted a terrific evaluation of Obama’s first months in office. From A PATRIOTIC ROTTWEILER:

I’ve concluded that not only was Barack Obama too inexperienced to be President, but he also appears to be incompetent as an executive, more-than-just-politician-level-dishonest and a bit of a narcissist (if not a fascist). He seems to have little understanding of American history, her dreams, or her tremendous potential for risk-taking, self-correction and innovation. He and Michelle have turned out to be quintessential Ivy League “Oppression Studies majors” with (carefully concealed) “attitudes.” Obama seems, above all, to be a Community Organizer with shakedown credentials and extraordinary speaking ability….

The list is a stunner, written by a corporate CEO. Go visit the patriotic German pooch and read all of this post — BEST EVALUATION OF OBAMA’S REIGN.