I worked for Gannett for 23 years, from 1976 until 1999, when the sale of The San Bernardino Sun (by Gannett, to Dean Singleton’s MediaNews) was completed.

Looking back, I recall the Gannett Era as a time of something like opulence. Real money spent on real projects and real journalists. But that could be a function of the eight years I spent, subsequently, in Singleton’s cash-strapped empire … and of a time when all the newspaper chains (maybe even Dean’s?) had money to spend, even after raking 25 percent profit off the top.

Anyway, Gannett is a far bigger entity than is MediaNews, and has bigger and more interesting newspapers (a bunch of which it bought after I was gone) … and it is suffering from diving profits and upheaval, as is the rest of print journalism.

To get to the point … if you want to read the views of a somewhat crabby but clearly connected (and opinionated) former Gannettoid, check out this web site.

I confess I have lost touch with much of the sturm und drang of Gannett life.

It was a far more political corporate landscape, with far more opportunities and a much bigger corporate structure.

Anyway, if you want to check in on the nation’s biggest chain … there you go.